After thousands of flights were canceled over the Christmas weekend, the disruption carried into the new week, with more than 1,400 flights scrubbed worldwide as of this morning.
over the weekend that they would not be able to field teams in upcoming bowl games because of players testing positive for the virus.
The number of daily cases in the U.S. topped 197,000 on Friday, a 65% increase over two weeks ago and nearing the record of 251,000 new daily cases set in January. Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that the number of new COVID cases will continue to rise and that while the omicron variant doesn't appear to be as severe as earlier cases,"we don't want to get complacent," as the sheer number of new cases could outweigh the lower rate of hospitalizations.
"If you have many, many, many more people with a less level of severity, that might kind of neutralize the positive effect of having less severity when you have so many more people," "And we're particularly worried about those who are in that unvaccinated class ... those are the most vulnerable ones when you have a virus that is extraordinarily effective in getting to people."In New York City, where new vaccination mandates go into effect Monday, the rate of positive test results increased over the weekend across all five boroughs.
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