Summer travel is booming, and while most of the pandemic-era restrictions at airports have disappeared, the coronavirus has more surprises in store.
BA.5, the latest omicron subvariant, is rapidly spreading, becoming the dominant variant in the United States and creating a wave of covid-19 cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an average of more than 120,000 new cases a day in the United States, and that doesn’t include massive estimates of people not reporting test results at home. Hospitalizations in the United States have risen 10 percent over the past week, according to follow-up data from The Washington Post.