With COVID-19 cases climbing in every state across the U.S., it will take at least another week to find out how holiday gatherings impacted the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant.
Stores, like Walmart, say they've also seen a significant demand for at-home COVID-19 testing kits.Sunday, they tested several hundred people.Some people waited in their vehicles for hours to get tested for COVID-19. There’s a shortage of tests across the country.Restrepo brought her grandmother to get tested. Neither have symptoms, but her grandmother needs proof of a negative test to fly out of the country to get home to Colombia.
Dr. Fauci said omicron appears to be less severe than past variants, but said people should remain vigilant. There are close to 1,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations in North Texas, which is the highest number in two months. Still, that’s only about 20% of the nearly 5,000 hospitalizations during the peak of the pandemic.
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