Metro Atlanta folks may have planned to bust out the egg nog and host normal celebrations this year after a chaotic 2020 pandemic holiday season.
Public health officials are now warning about the latest COVID-19 omicron variant, which is undoubtedly weighing heavily on many families’ minds as the festivities approach. Atlanta has even circled back to a citywide indoor mask mandate because of the spike in COVID-19 cases due to omicron.
Atlanta’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data this week showing that the omicron variant now accounts for 73.2% of new coronavirus cases in the U.S.
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