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Democrats try to stamp out school closures as omicron surges

By Associated PressJan 12, 2022
People line up and receive test kits to detect COVID-19 as they are distributed in New York on Dec. 23, 2021. The COVID-19 surge caused by the omicron variant means once-reliable indicators of the pandemic's progress are much less so, complicating how the media is able to tell the story. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
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Omicron wave prompts media to rethink which data to report

By Associated PressJan 12, 2022
"Wear a mask" sign at Veterans Plaza at Fenton Street and Ellsworth Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland on Thursday afternoon, July 9, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Elvert Barnes Photography, Creative Commons)
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In omicron outbreak, US governors lose appetite for mandates

By Associated PressJan 7, 2022
he clock strikes midnight at the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration
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Omicron spreads global gloom over New Year's celebrations

By Associated PressDec 27, 2021
FILE - People queue to get on the Air France flight to Paris at OR Tambo's airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 26, 2021. As the world grapples with the emergence of the new highly transmissible variant of COVID-19, worried scientists in South Africa — where omicron was first identified — are scrambling to combat its lightning spread across the country. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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Contact tracing revs up in some states as omicron reaches US

By Associated PressDec 3, 2021