UUP COVID-19 Weekly Digest - Week of 1/24/22

Welcome back to the UUP COVID-19 Weekly Digest! This week, we'll be talking about Omicron updates in New Jersey, COVID issues in the Olympics, the state of the pandemic internationally, and so much more. To read more about these topics, refer to the links below. We hope you enjoy and we'll see you again next week!

New Jersey News: 

• N.J. reports 151 COVID deaths, 4,459 cases. Hospitalizations drop for 7th straight day.
• N.J. county cites 5 prisons as reason it had the highest rate of new COVID-19 cases

National News: 

• US Olympic bobsled team already facing COVID-19 ‘nightmare’
• 'Stealth' omicron variant BA.2 circulating in almost half of US, but CDC exercises caution: report

Global News: 

• Winter Olympics 2022: Beijing reports spike in new virus cases
• Russia's COVID-19 tally hits pandemic record due to omicron

Vaccination News: 

• ​COVID vaccine markedly cuts household transmission, studies show
• Does the world need an Omicron vaccine? What researchers say

Thank you for reading!