U.S. health experts on Thursday urged Americans to prepare for severe disruptions in coming weeks as the rising wave of COVID-19 cases led by the Omicron variant threatened hospitals, schools and other sectors impacting their daily lives.
The warning came as the United States reached a record high in COVID-19 cases, while federal officials issued more travel warnings and reportedly prepared to authorize booster shots for 12 to 15-year-olds next week.
"The next month is going to be a viral blizzard," he said. "All of society is going to be pressured by this." "We have to be really careful about being too dismissive of Omicron," Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious disease expert at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN.
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