COVID cases are falling dramatically in parts of the U.S. that got hit with the variant early, including Boston, New York and Washington, D.C.
The Omicron wave is likely beginning to recede in the U.S., experts say.Omicron is still wreaking havoc in parts of the country, but infectious disease experts are optimistic that relief is around the corner.In South Africa and in the U.K., which experienced their Omicron waves before the U.S., cases spiked dramatically and then fell almost as quickly.
That appears to be happening now in parts of the U.S. that got hit with the variant early, including Boston, New York and Washington, D.C.and rising to, of course, a new height in infections. That does appear now, in aggregate, to be starting to decline," Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Axios.
"In this country as a whole, it might take a while longer to resolve this surge," in comparison to South Africa or the U.K., Dan Barouch, director of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, told Axios. U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned over the weekend that a "national peak" hasn't been reached yet, urging caution as hospitalizations continue to strain health systems,Even though Omicron seems to cause milder illness than prior variants, it has still strained hospitals' resources, and the virus has continued to kill more than 1,000 people per day, on average.
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