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The first case of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus Omicron variant was detected in California, officials said Wednesday.

A historic number of workers have become their own bosses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (pdf).

Vaccine mandates are hurting hospitals, as a judge blocks Biden’s on healthcare workers.

An Israeli immunologist suggested this week that the spread of the newly detected Omicron variant — which has sparked panic and resulted in travel bans worldwide — may actually signal the beginning of the end of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Dire warnings about new variant looking increasingly alarmist.

Face coverings “unlikely to have much of an impact” in fighting Omicron.

U.S. population is less concerned about the emergence of the Omicron variant than they were about the Delta strain.

"Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before."

U.K. officials have blocked the word "Christmas" because it may offend minority religions.

The chief economic adviser for financial services firm Allianz warned that the new coronavirus variant Omicron could shake up the markets, exacerbate supply chain woes, amplify record-high inflation pressures — and possibly result in 1970s-style “stagflation.”