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To Grandmother’s House or No? Omicron Disrupts Holiday Plans
By LAURA UNGAR and TALI ARBEL, Associated Press
For the second year in a row, the ever-morphing coronavirus presents would-be holiday revelers with a difficult choice: cancel their trips and celebrations yet again or figure out how to forge ahead as safely as possible.
Many health experts are begging people not to let down their guard, but pandemic fatigue is real.
While travel restrictions in some places have forced cancellations, many governments have been reluctant to order more lockdowns.
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Instead they are increasingly leaving decisions about who to see and where to go in the hands of individuals.
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