New daily omicron infections in the U.S. have surpassed those in the delta wave, CNN reported. U.S. airlines scrapped almost 1,900 flights for the holiday weekend because of personnel shortages linked to a spike in cases. The Biden administration is focused on making sure that “we don’t get an overrun on hospitals, particularly in those regions in which you have a larger proportion of unvaccinated individuals,” Fauci said. Last week, Biden said he had used wartime powers to advance the production of a billion more test kits. Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
