Dr. Anthony Fauci cautiously predicted the U.S. omicron wave could soon start to noticeably decline “as we get to the end of January.”
"We’re starting to see that turnaround in the U.K., particularly in London which was the epicenter of their outbreak," Fauci noted.President Joe Biden on Jan. 13, 2022, directed his team to double its procurement of rapid COVID-19 tests to be delivered for free to Americans -- now totaling 1 billion at-home kits.
"It’s going to come down as fast as it went up," Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, told the Associated Press this week. , which projects that the number of daily reported cases in the U.S. will top out at 1.2 million by Jan. 19 and will then fall quickly. Mokdad told the outlet this is "simply because everybody who could be infected will be infected.
Mokdad added that the model shows the true number of new daily infections in the U.S., which includes people who were never tested, has already peaked on Jan. 6 when it hit 6 million.
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