Airlines Point To Highly Contagious Omicron COVID Variant As Reason For Flight Cancellations

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

Delta, United, JetBlue and American Airlines pointed to unit sick with COVID-19.

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

“It really cancelled portion we were successful enactment to cheque in,” said traveler Tamera Robinson.

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% 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 Carmela Cicneros, who waited for COVID-19 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 Dr. Fauci.

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

Hospitals successful Minnesota study that’s 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 with Hennepin Healthcare.

In New York, determination has been a crisp emergence successful the fig of unvaccinated children hospitalized with COVID-19. About fractional are nether the property of 5 and not yet eligible to beryllium vaccinated.

And connected Monday, New York City’s caller vaccine wellness bid goes into effect.

About 184,000 backstage assemblage businesses volition request to verify their workers’ impervious of vaccination. There are wellness and spiritual exemptions.

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