I'm susannah Palmer and the Bloomberg newsroom New reported oma cron cases in the UK tripled in a day with England almost certain to be suffering hundreds of thousands of daily cases of the new variant London was put under an emergency alert as the UK government was reported to be considering a two week ban on people in England gathering indoors health officials from German states called on the government to designate the UK as a virus variant area a step that would require stricter testing of travelers from the country The U.S. government has over counted the number of Americans who are at least partly vaccinated state officials warning meaning that more people are unprotected as the pandemic's winter surge gathers steam Harvard University will move classes online for the first three weeks of January The union that won a landmark vote at a Starbucks location in Buffalo last week is trying to overturn an unsuccessful vote at another area store The labor group workers united urged the national labor relations board in a filing late Thursday to reject the results of the failed union vote saying that Starbucks waged a shock and awe campaign to intimidate workers JPMorgan says yearend holiday spending in the U.S. is coming in notably weaker this year than in the recent past We get more about that from Bloomberg's truly pellet It signals that retail sales are set to end the year with a whimper according to the Wall Street bank the pace of purchases made on credit cards from Thanksgiving through early December was slower this year compared with both the pandemic affected 2020 and pre COVID 2019 According to JPMorgan economist Daniel silver that signals December retail sales data will likely be downbeat Charlie pellet Bloomberg radio Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries I'm Susanna Palmer This is.