Omicron accounts for 90% of Covid circumstances in some components of the U.S., CDC director says

The omicron Covid-19 variant has shortly overtaken delta because the dominant pressure of the virus throughout the U.S., accounting for 90% of the circumstances in some components of the nation, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky stated Wednesday.

The now variant makes up greater than 73% of the circumstances in america as of Saturday, in line with the newest knowledge launched by the Middle for Illness Management and Prevention. Final week, U.S. well being officers stated omicron accounted for two.9% of all circumstances sequenced by way of Dec. 11, however later revised that quantity as much as 12.6%.

Walensky stated the extremely mutated and contagious pressure makes as much as 90% of the infections within the japanese Atlantic states, components of the Midwest, South and northern Pacific states.

“This fast increas within the proportion of omicron circulating across the nation is much like what we have seen internationally,” she instructed reporters throughout a White Home Covid-19 press briefing.