More than 5 million new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the United States in the 10 days since Christmas.
By 8 p.m. Tuesday, cumulative U.S. COVID-19 cases totaled 57,048,792, with more than 6.9 million cases reported during the past 28 days and more than 5 million cases confirmed in the 10 days since Christmas.estimated that, for the week ended Dec. 25, the delta variant accounted for roughly 41% of all COVID-19 cases, while the omicron variant accounted for nearly 59%.
The record single-day totals may be due in part to delayed holiday weekend reporting after several U.S. states did not report data on New Year’s Eve and many do not routinely report data on weekends, meaning that some of these cases could be from positive tests taken on prior days,Regardless, the seven-day average of daily new U.S. cases as of Monday wass 480,273, the highest such metric of new cases in any countryAccording to a seven-day average of data from the U.S.
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