Travelers Across The Country Are Feeling The Impact Of The Omicron Variant

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NEW YORK (CBS13) — Travelers crossed the state are feeling the interaction of the omicron variant with hundreds of flights canceled affecting thousands of travelers, and with covid cases surging successful immoderate parts of the country, getting a covid trial is inactive a challenge.

It was different time of canceled flights and stranded travelers, owed successful ample portion to the highly contagious omicron variant.

Delta, United, Jet Blue, and American Airlines traced the origin to unit sick with COVID-19.

Airlines had already canceled hundreds of flights connected Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and much than 50 flights person already been canceled Monday.

“It really canceled portion we were successful enactment to check-in,” said 1 traveler.

On Christmas, Florida broke its ain grounds for the highest fig of regular cases, that grounds acceptable the time before, connected Christmas Eve.

Los Angeles saw a 300 percent emergence successful caller covid cases past week, creating a immense request for testing.

“I person a process that needs to beryllium done, covid investigating earlier my process and present they’re telling maine that they’re not doing it nary more,” said 1 of the radical waiting successful enactment for a test.

The nation’s apical infectious illness doctor, Anthony Fauci, acknowledged he’s frustrated by the constricted proviso of covid-19 tests.

“We’ve evidently got to bash better. I deliberation things volition amended greatly arsenic we get into January, but that doesn’t assistance america contiguous and tomorrow,” said Fauci.

Doctor Fauci says information from astir the satellite suggests omicron whitethorn origin little superior unwellness but that the variant’s precocious transmissibility could overwhelm the nation’s hospitals with the unvaccinated.

Hospitals successful Minnesota study that is already happening.

“If we get a immense question of covid—unfortunately, there’s going to beryllium a constituent wherever we don’t person country to instrumentality attraction of everyone,” said Dr. Andrea Rowland-Fisher, 1 of the doctors astatine Hennepin Healthcare.

A caller survey from the National Institute of Health recovered that COVID-19 tin dispersed wrong days from the lungs to astir each organ strategy successful the assemblage and tin persist determination for months.

Studies circumstantial to the omicron variant are inactive ongoing

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