Common each day COVID-19 instances within the US reached over 267,000 Tuesday, a file excessive largely pushed by an ultratransmissible coronavirus variant that specialists are nonetheless scrambling to grasp.
The present seven-day common of 267,305 each day instances has leapt above the earlier file of round 250,000 instances, which was set in early January, 2021. And the present vertical rise in instances is predicted to proceed in to the approaching weeks.
“The speedy improve in instances we’re seeing throughout the nation is largely a mirrored image of the exceptionally transmissible omicron variant,” Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, mentioned in a White Home press briefing Wednesday.
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