Governments Wrestling With Omicron Weigh Mitigation Versus Containment
The Christmas holiday weekend began as more governments wrestled with whether to focus on containing the spread of the Omicron variant or trying to mitigate its effects, while staff shortages and self-isolation requirements continued to disrupt travel and other services across the U.S. and Europe.
The Omicron impact in the U.S. kept mounting. In New York late Friday, public-health officials warned of a sharp increase in hospitalizations of unvaccinated children and issued an urgent call for childhood vaccination against Covid-19.
