The average number of daily COVID-19 cases is falling nationwide in the U.S., and hospitalizations seem to be nearing a peak.
COVID-19 deaths, which lag behind cases and hospitalizations, are still rising. About 2,500 deaths are being reported each day, up 34% from two weeks ago,Numbers vary across the country. States in the Northeast that faced the initial wave of Omicron cases are now seeing the steepest declines. In New York and New Jersey, daily case reports have fallen by about two-thirds from a peak in early January, the newspaper reported.
Cases are still at record levels in some states, including Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, and North Dakota, the data tracker shows.makes up about 0.1% of cases. COVID-19 deaths will likely continue to climb for a few weeks as cases and hospitalizations decline, according“Omicron will push us over a million deaths,” Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California at Irvine, told the AP.— far surpassing any other country. About 52,000 U.S. deaths have been reported in the past month.
“That will cause a lot of soul searching,” Noymer said. “There will be a lot of discussion about what we could have done differently, how many of the deaths were preventable.”CDC: “COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review, Jan. 28, 2022.”The Associated Press: “Omicron drives US deaths higher than in fall’s Delta wave.”
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