- Wastewater tests show COVID infections surging, but pandemic fatigue limits precautions (missouriindependent.com)
- Healthy, boosted people unlikely to develop severe omicron infections, but jury’s out on older, at-risk populations (washingtonpost.com)
- Coronavirus infections rise in northern states, spike in Mountain West, as holidays near (washingtonpost.com)
- Cantaloupes recalled after salmonella infections result in 2 deaths and at least 28 hospitalizations (salon.com)
- Michigan leads US in Covid case count with every one in 10 new cases (theguardian.com)Far-right Michigan Republican known for anti-vaxxer views hospitalized with COVID-19 (alternet.org)
- A Virus Surge Ebbs, but 68 Million in U.S. Remain Unvaccinated (nytimes.com)
- Disruption, Dismay, Dissent: Americans Grapple With Omicron’s Rise (nytimes.com)
- Czech Republic to ban unvaccinated from public events; high cases in Austria, Germany and Hungary (theguardian.com)
- 1,000 US counties still have vaccination rates below 30% – particularly in the Southeast and Midwest, CDC says