OMICRON CAUSES MORE DEATHS IN THE UNITED STATES THAN THE FALL'S DELTA WAVE

  • 29/01/2022

Omicron, a highly contagious coronavirus variation sweeping the country, is pushing the daily American death toll higher than it was during last fall's Delta wave, with mortality expected to continue rising for days or perhaps weeks.

Since mid-November, the seven-day rolling average for daily new Covid-19 deaths in the United States has been rising, hitting 2,267 on Thursday, surpassing a September peak of 2,100 when Delta was the leading type. 

Omicron is now thought to account for nearly all of the viruses circulating in the country. Even though it causes less severe disease in most people, the fact that it is more transmissible implies that more people are becoming ill and dying as a result of it.

"Omicron will cause over a million deaths," claimed Andrew Noymer, an assistant professor of public health at the University of California, Irvine. "That is going to trigger a lot of soul searching." There will be much debate about what we could have done differently, and how many of the deaths could have been avoided.

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