Murphy to get on a COVID-19 Call with other Governors, Biden
Governor Phil Murphy on Monday morning will participate in a White House COVID-19 response team governors’ call with President Joe Biden.
Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, overburdened hospital ERs and pharmacy shelves depleted of self-administering COVID tests, Murphy and his family took a Christmas vacation in Costa Rica.
“I wish everyone great holidays,” the governor said Monday. “Please God, get vaccinated, get boosted, and be smart. I know wearing a mask stinks. I don’t blame you. I don’t like it either. But if you’re inside and you don’t know everybody else’s vaccination status, put one on.”
The holiday gathering season inevitably produced a spike.
From The Associated Press:
The latest COVID-19 variant is upending holiday plans for tens of thousands of travelers — but it didn’t do much damage to holiday shopping.
Airlines canceled hundreds more flights Sunday, citing staffing problems tied to COVID-19, as the nation’s travel woes extended beyond Christmas, with no clear indication when normal schedules would resume.
But shoppers shrugged off the omicron variant, and holiday sales rose at the fastest pace in 17 years, according to one spending measure.
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