the seven days moving average of new cases was 121,437 if of Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Ahead of this week, the US last exceeded 100,000 cases per day in begin October.
Also on the rise is the number of Covid19 deaths, with a seven day average of 1,651 people dying every day of the virus as of This was evident from the JHU data on Saturday. The average daily number of deaths was not that high in more than a month.
The first case was found in California on Wednesday, and in the variant was identified over the weekend in 15 other states: Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Nevertheless, the US more equipped now to act with the newly detected variant than during the begin of the pandemic, said U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy Thursday.
“We are in so different place now than we were one year ago because we learned a lot more. We have vaccines available. we have ver more to test available, and what we need to do to get through this winter is make sure sure that we double down on our vaccination strategyMurthy told CNN.
The surgeon general stressed that, while there is much to learn over the new variant, mitigation efforts, including masks and hand hygiene combined with physical distance, remain effective in what to give protection.
Delta remains the dominant species in the world
While the Omicron variety has the potential to become the dominant strain in the US, the Delta variant remains show up in 99.9% of cases of coronavirus, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDA.
“We know what we need To do against Delta, and that is getting vaccinated, getting a boost when you in eligibility and continue everyone of die prevention measures, including masking. And die are very likely work against the Omicron variant,” Walensky told CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
“Even if the Omicron trunk isn’t spinning out to be worse, we lose almost a thousand people every day from the Delta variant, and that in and of self is a reason for people to get a boost,” Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the CDC, CNN told CNN earlier this week.
Travel stricter rules until begin Monday
dr. Anthony Fauci said earlier this week that traveling during the holidays is okay, but getting vaccinated and challenged is a must.
Plus, all foreign national who travel to the US must be fully vaccinated, although there is no vaccination requirement for US Citizens for air travel, both worldwide and in own country.
However, the White House said this week that a vaccine requirement for domestic trips continued on the table as a option for the future.
CNN’s Deidre McPhillips, Jamie Gumbrecht, Jen Christensen, Maggie Fox, Travis Caldwell and Naomi Thomas contributed to this report.
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