
Admissions at some children's hospitals are rising to near peak levels as Omicron spreads
CNN
As the Omicron variant continues to grip the US, some children's hospitals are once again seeing a rise in admissions fueled by the most contagious strain of coronavirus yet.
The holidays this year accompanied by a surge in Covid-19 cases that is so high it surpassed a record set earlier this year. On Tuesday, the US hit a seven-day average of 265,427 new Covid-19 cases daily, Johns Hopkins University data shows -- eclipsing the previous record of about 251,989 daily cases reported on January 11.

The governments of Mexico and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to fund and expedite several wastewater treatment projects in the Tijuana River basin. Untreated wastewater continually affects residents living along the river, which flows across the border from Tijuana and through several of San Diego’s southern neighborhoods.