Although the latest nightmare COVID variant, Omicron, has made it to California and soured our fantasies of a COVID-free winter, daddy Biden has a plan to keep us safe and the economy running. Instead of shutting everything down, the Biden administration will announce a series of measures this afternoon that include amping up booster shots, tightening travel-related testing, and reimbursing us for at-home tests that might keep us from having to put our lives on pause again.
Although the U.S. began allowing international travelers into the country again less than a month ago, Biden controversially banned travel from eight Southern African countries last week. But because Omicron has already reached large swaths of the world, the U.S. will now require all international travelers to be vaccinated and to show proof of a negative COVID test just one day before their flight to the states, per CNN.
