and, sure enough…
UPDATE: Now Delta Air Lines is canceling 90+ flights tomorrow due to a “combination of issues” including the impact of the Omicron variant. “Delta teams have exhausted all options and resources.”
— Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) December 24, 2021
BREAKING: more good news on severity with Omicron, with risk of hospital admission cut by 50-70% compared to Delta, latest UKHSA analysis reveals. Happy Christmas https://t.co/q4vkCsMvMq
— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) December 23, 2021
BREAKING: People with Omicron are significantly less likely to develop severe symptoms, but the effects of the booster vaccine wane after 10 weeks, according to new analysis by the UK Health Security Agency.@SkyNewsThomas has the latest.https://t.co/79W8ZWrJ26 pic.twitter.com/7121iXXvya
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 23, 2021
Three recent studies that show a reduced risk of hospital admission with #Omicron disease. H/T @kallmemeg
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) December 23, 2021
45-55% reduced risk: UKhttps://t.co/jqWNHmy5FE
50-80% reduced risk: Scotland https://t.co/6KXzdj5cAY
70-90% reduced risk: RSAhttps://t.co/Z0KMtuPvpa pic.twitter.com/bmIeu0aA3a
JUST IN: Air travel is HIGHER than pre-pandemic levels. TSA says it screened more people at airports yesterday than on the same day in 2019. 2.08 million vs 1.94 million.
— Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) December 23, 2021
Australia's COVID-19 testing facilities were severely stretched amid a record surge in cases and as tens of thousands of domestic travelers thronged the centers to get test results necessary to travel interstate for Christmas https://t.co/RCBh4mTgS7 pic.twitter.com/GnYRST48kd
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 23, 2021
Holiday travellers and even a few foreign tourists were making their way through YYC Calgary International Airport Thursday, making for the busiest single day of travel since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic roughly 20 months ago. https://t.co/S2uMhKeHSz
— CTV News Calgary (@CTVCalgary) December 23, 2021
Today was the busiest day of the festive season at Dublin airport. There's also been an increase in passenger no-shows after changes to travel requirements. For those who did make it home, there were emotional scenes at the arrivals gate | More: https://t.co/VzRg07CakO pic.twitter.com/JhtMUjB274
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 19, 2021
Bad news: The MAbs that your hospital has stocked (likely Regeneron or Lilly) no longer work against Omicron. The one that will work (GSK's Sotrovimab) is in massively short supply. Moreover, lab tests show some loss in GSK's efficacy as well. https://t.co/ttSzlhfHn7.(10/25)
— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) December 22, 2021
One interesting thing about omicron infecting lots of vaxxed people is that it actually shows that, pre-omicron, the vaccines were doing a really good job of protecting vaxxed ppl against infection and transmission, even with Delta.
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) December 23, 2021
Protect the elderly & immuno-compromised. This variant will be everywhere within days.
— Richard Signorelli 🌱🇺🇦 🌊 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 (@richsignorelli) December 23, 2021
Omicron Drives U.S. Virus Cases Past Delta’s Peak https://t.co/bV1jIVXSXw
Biden Omicron measures too little, too late for fast-moving virus -experts https://t.co/mwUSuxyGtv pic.twitter.com/3hevx8CpG0
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 23, 2021
In London and New York City #Omicron cases surging and new daily hospitalizations are rising, but so far – thankfully – trending lower than past waves and some of these hospitalizations are undoubtably still related to recent surge in delta infection (delta now rapidly declining) pic.twitter.com/Wn1CdWaAaS
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) December 23, 2021
"Cloth masks are not going to cut it with omicron," https://t.co/SlnS9YgyxJ
— Ricky Martin (@ricky_martin) December 23, 2021
New York City will scale back the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration as the Omicron variant spreads. About 15,000 people will be admitted, instead of the usual 58,000, and vaccines and masks will be required. https://t.co/LiPlCXijma
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 23, 2021
I contracted Covid-19 three times despite being vaxxed, and it wasn't great! But don't worry, I'm more or less a freak. But a freak with a lot of advice to give based on my extensive covid-having experience. Hope some good (and lols) can come out of this: https://t.co/LVv2F38XdV
— Ema O'Connor (@o_ema) December 23, 2021
‘Omicron: Half of colds will be Covid, warn UK researchers – BBC News’
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) December 23, 2021
Or Omicron is a cold https://t.co/IDMkIYCC2a
Good news that those infected with omicron are 50-70% less likely to need hospital care but…
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) December 23, 2021
We've had the highest number of infections reported today.
And if double the number of people get infected, the hospitalisation rate remains just as high
‘Britain now has a government unable to govern.’ https://t.co/XLAymuYzqe
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) December 23, 2021
The Overnight Note 