The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages everyone to consider frequent testing, avoiding crowds and masking while indoors to help slow the spread of COVID-19, and for eligible people to get their vaccine shots and boosters.
With the Memorial Day holiday weekend approaching, the latest national COVID-19 numbers show an omicron subvariant continues to drive an uptick in cases and hospitalizations nationwide as well as in Georgia.
CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky spoke Wednesday at a White House briefing along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, and Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator.
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