- South Africa’s latest surge is a possible preview of the pandemic’s next chapter. (nytimes.com)
- ‘Now hiring, please!’: Businesses are desperate to find and keep workers, despite COVID, Omicron surge (washingtonpost.com)
- More than 103,000 Americans hospitalized with covid, matching worst of summer surge (washingtonpost.com)US reports global record of more than 1m daily Covid cases (theguardian.com)Starbucks will require U.S. employees to either be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID tests (nydailynews.com)Second Chinese city forced into Covid lockdown (bbc.com)
- Surge in Colorado Covid cases could force hospitals to ration services (theguardian.com)
- ‘We Can’t Endure This’: Surge in U.S. Shootings Shows No Sign of Easing (nytimes.com)
- Bidenomics! Payrolls show surprisingly powerful gain of 467,000 in January despite omicron surge (cnbc.com)'I've Never Seen Anything Like This!' CNBC Absolutely Loses It Over Blockbuster Jobs Report Showing Half-a-Million New Jobs (mediaite.com)
- Joe Biden says US Covid surge should be ‘a source of concern but not panic’ (theguardian.com)
- Hospitalizations of young children increased fivefold during omicron surge, but few died, says CDC report (washingtonpost.com)
- U.S. economy added 199,000 jobs in December, before labor market confronted omicron surge (washingtonpost.com)
- Criminal investigation underway following Astroworld Festival deaths, crowd surge (washingtonpost.com)Videos show Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert continued despite desperate pleas for help from the crowd (washingtonpost.com)
