2.3 times ↑ in 2 weeks… Expert: Omicron tsunami will hit the U.S. next month
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(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jeong Seong-ho = As the omicron mutation of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) spreads wildly in the United States, the number of new daily cases of Corona 19 has set a new record high.
Citing data from Johns Hopkins University, CNN reported on the 29th that the average number of new COVID-19 cases per day for 7 days as of the 28th (local time) was 265,427.
This surpassed the previous record (251,989 people, January 11th) set in January, when the COVID-19 outbreak was most fierce in the United States.
The New York Times (NYT), which independently aggregates data, also identified an average of 267,305 new confirmed cases per day for 7 days as of the 28th. This is a whopping 2.26-fold increase in two weeks.
However, the increase in inpatients and deaths has not yet been as steep as in confirmed cases.
The New York Times reported that the average number of inpatients per day for seven days was 74,962, an 11 percent increase from two weeks ago, and the average daily death rate was 1243, down 3 percent from the previous year.
Since the number of inpatients and deaths usually follows the trend of confirmed cases with a lag of a few weeks, it seems that it remains to be seen how the current rapid spread will be reflected in these indicators.
The New York Times cited the central Atlantic coast, including Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia, which are the capital areas of the United States, as the epicenter of this re-proliferation.
In these regions, the number of new confirmed cases per day on the 27th was the highest ever recorded. Washington, D.C. has the highest number of confirmed cases per capita than any other state in the United States.
“Washington is a foreshadowing of what we will see in many other parts of the country,” said Neil Segel, assistant professor of public health at the University of Maryland’s Graduate School of Public Health.
In addition, many infections are coming out of the northeastern states such as New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, and the number of confirmed cases is also increasing rapidly in the major cities of Miami and Chicago.
According to CNN, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows widespread high levels of community transmission across the United States.
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