The average daily new cases doubled, and the outbreak in Omicron, the United States, has not yet reached its peak

The average daily new cases doubled, and the outbreak in Omicron, the United States, has not yet reached its peak

China News Service, January 8th, according to a comprehensive report, the rapid spread of the new coronavirus Omicron variant in the United States has continued to push up the number of confirmed cases and hospitalized cases. The U.S. seven-day average of new cases has doubled from a week ago, and hospitalizations are also expected to break records soon. However, Warrenski, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believes that the outbreak caused by Omi Chron has not yet reached its peak.
On January 4, local time, residents were tested at a new coronavirus testing station on 14th Street in Manhattan, New York, the United States. Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan

New cases double, hospitalizations set to hit record high
The new coronavirus Omicron variant continues to rage, and the United States reported 662,000 new confirmed cases on the 6th, which ranks fourth in all daily data in the United States, and the United States just reached 1 million new confirmed cases a few days ago. The highest single-day record for a case.
According to a related report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the number of newly diagnosed cases reached 1 million on the 3rd, the 7-day average of new cases in the United States reached 491,700 per day, and this 7-day average almost doubled from a week ago. .
In addition, hospitalizations in the U.S. have steadily increased since late December 2021, as Omicron rapidly replaced Delta as the predominant circulating strain in the U.S. U.S. hospitalizations are approaching 123,000 and are expected to surpass the 132,000 record soon, according to a Reuters tally.
U.S. health officials have warned that the high number of infections caused by Omicron is putting a heavy strain on hospitals. The surge in hospitalizations has also forced nearly half of U.S. state hospitals to delay non-urgent surgeries.
CDC: The peak of the epidemic in the United States has not yet arrived
Valensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in an interview on the 7th that, judging from South Africa's experience, she believes that the United States has not yet experienced the situation that "may have passed the peak".
"The way Omicron has peaked in other countries, like in South Africa, is a rapid decline in new cases," she said. "But I don't think we've seen that peak in the United States."
She also noted that Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are climbing more slowly than new cases, but "we are now starting to see hospitalizations rising as well".

Varensky also said that hospitals across the country are overwhelmed with unvaccinated patients who are 17 times more likely to be admitted and 20 times more likely to die than vaccinated patients. "So there's a lot we can do right now to push vaccines, boosters," she said. "We have 99 percent of our counties in high transmission. Please wear masks in public indoor settings.