U.S. COVID cases at highest levels since November, while Northeast and Midwest are above delta peak

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Mon, 2022-05-16 12:31 — mike kraft

U.S. COVID cases at highest levels since November, while Northeast and Midwest are above delta peak COVID cases continued to rise across the U.S. on Monday and were trending at the highest levels seen since late November around the time that South African... Ciara Linnane MarketWatch

COVID cases continued to rise across the U.S. on Monday and were trending at the highest levels seen since late November around the time that South African scientists first identified the highly transmissible omicron variant which quickly became dominant around the world.

Sine then, the BA.2 variant of omicron, and two other subvariants named BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1, have helped spread infections.

The U.S. is averaging 90,423 cases a day, up 60% from two weeks ago, according to a New York Times tracker. Cases are higher in nearly every state, but the Northeast and Midwest are being particularly hard hit with case reports in both regions now higher than they were at the peak of last summer’s delta surge. There are concerns that case numbers are even higher, as many people are now testing at home and the data is not being collected.

The country is averaging 21,547 hospitalizations a day, up 24% from two weeks ago. The daily death toll has fallen below 400 to 311 on average as the official toll counted by Johns Hopkins University gradually edges toward the one million mark. The New York Times dedicated a section to the sad news on Sunday....

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