Concerns over a winter wave of omicron prompt closures, mask mandates and new COVID fears
by Jaweed Kaleem, Kurtis Lee and Emily Baumgaertner, Los Angeles Times
Dec 17, 2021
3 minutes
Colleges are moving finals online. Offices are putting reopening plans on pause. Cities are instituting mask mandates.
Exactly one year after the United States kicked off its vaccination campaign against COVID-19, cases are surging once again as the country cobbles together a response.
About 120,000 coronavirus cases are being identified each day in the U.S. — up from 80,000 a few weeks ago.
Contagion is expected to worsen as falling temperatures bring more indoor gatherings. Several hospitals in the Midwest and Northeast, the
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