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Flying is already miserable this year. Is omicron going to make things worse?

LOS ANGELES — After visiting friends and family in Orange County, Jamie Dietz and her husband, Craig, shuffled through crowds at Los Angeles International Airport this week to fly back home to Indianapolis. Like many others, they had weighed the risks of travel as a new COVID-19 variant circulated with the need for time with their loved ones.

“The way we see it … COVID’s not going away, obviously, it’s just getting worse,” Jamie Dietz said before boarding her plane. “But traveling is one of our favorite things to do together so we’re not going to stop traveling as long as we can.”

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