5 ways to deal with anxiety during the holidays amid the omicron surge

Five ways to deal with anxiety during the omicron COVID-19 surge.

With the explosion of coronavirus cases in the U.S., fueled in part by the highly contagious omicron variant, Americans are once again facing a wave of sickness and the anxiety and stress that comes with it.

Those who believed that mass vaccination would help bat the virus down over the summer were hit with a wave from the delta variant and then record number of cases once again in December with omicron.

"People feel languishing and pandemic fatigue," said Elissa Epel, a psychiatry professor at the University of California, San Francisco. "People are tired."

This fatigue comes less than three months from the two-year mark of the pandemic.