The effort, the latest among dozens of Republican attempts to overturn Trump's loss, is unlikely to alter the electoral college tally, which Biden won 306-232.
U.S. air travel hit its highest level on Saturday since mid-March, raising fears that the spike in holiday travel will result in another surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths in upcoming weeks.
"We can be fairly confident this variant is now everywhere," Mercedes Carnethon, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University, told MSNBC on Friday.
More than 3 million Georgia residents have already cast their votes in the two Jan. 5 runoff races that determine which party controls the U.S. Senate this year.
Modern Health founder and CEO Alyson Watson had to remind employees that their mental health comes first during a year of anxiety amid the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump has refused to concede he lost the election to Joe Biden. Trump's Republican allies have launched a long-shot bid to overturn the loss.
The remarks came shortly after a speech from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who slammed the $2,000 direct payments as "socialism for the rich."
"It has been determined that this was an isolated incident," Julie Miller, an administrator for the Boone County Health Department, told CNBC by email.
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