News Snapshot:
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 746th day of the pandemic. The new White House Covid response coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, said on Sunday that he does not believe that the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.2 and its subvariants will have much of an effect on the U.S. economic recovery. Speaking on the CNN news program “State of the Union,” Jha said that, while he was “concerned” about the spread of Omicron variants, he did not see it having any significant impact, a message that belied...
