The United States records its highest record of daily coronavirus infections of the entire pandemic

U.S, facing a fifth wave of coronavirus covid-19 Due to the omicron variant, on Tuesday registered a record average of 265,427 new daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University. The average number of new cases per day in the last seven days in the most mourning country in the world surpassed the record of 251,989 reached during the third wave, in January 2021.

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Omicron is the dominant variant in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It accounted for around 59% of new cases in the week ending December 25.

This federal public health agency has drastically revised down its estimates for the previous week (the one ended on December 18): from 73% of omicron it goes to 22.5% (correct data).

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“We have received more data on this period and there has been a reduction in the proportion of omicron”, a CDC spokeswoman explained to AFP.

“It is important to note that we continue to see a continuous increase in the proportion of omicron”, he insisted nonetheless.

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“A fast wave”

The curve of new infections, which fell between the beginning of September and the end of October after a fourth wave caused by the delta variant, has risen again for two months and is now skyrocketing with the highly contagious omicron.

“It will be a fast wave, but very difficult”, Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina estimated on Twitter this Tuesday, who also considers that the record of infections is only the “tip of the iceberg” due to the number of undetected or undeclared cases.

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This problem is compounded by the fact that antigen tests, which have the advantage of giving a result in just a few minutes, are less sensitive to omicron than previous variants, US health authorities warned Tuesday.

This means that these tests are more likely to be negative even though the person has been infected (called false negatives).

For the moment the hospitalization curve also increases, with about 9,000 daily admissions of new COVID-19 patients in the United States, but it is far from the 16,500 registered in early January 2021, according to data from the CDC.

Currently around 1,200 people die on average daily from covid-19 in the country, while a year ago the maximum was about 3,400 deaths.

Reduced quarantine

According to figures from Johns Hopkins University, more than 820,000 people have died from covid-19 in the United States since the outbreak of the pandemic, the highest number known in the world.

Faced with the outbreak of infections that causes disruption to restaurants and forces the cancellation of flights and shows, the US government decided this week to halve the recommended duration of quarantine for people positive for covid-19, which goes from 10 to five days for asymptomatic and 14 to 5 days for unvaccinated close contacts of positive cases.

The world has reached new records of infections during the past week, with an average of more than 935,000 cases of covid-19 detected daily from December 22 to 28, according to an AFP count based on official data.

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