Omicron has quickly become a powerful version of the Covid 19 in the United States with maximum cases from the new variant in the past week. The Covid 19 new strain Omicron has been able to make up for 75 percent of all compiled case scenarios, which is six times more than last week. As the holiday breaks approach, authorities and specialists caution of an uncontrollable influx of patients and potentially devastating understaffing.
Omicron Could Introduce New COVID Infections To The US
As per some medical experts in the US, the speed at which Omicron strain is growing is tremendous and wreaking havoc on health facilities, and there’s no doubt that all this is going to be in the united states of America, really over the next week.
Health professionals, specialists, consultants, as well as other pivotal healthcare staff are drained two and a half years into the highly pathogenic pandemic. This has reduced the life expectancy rate in the United States by 1.8 years.
Dr. Fauci, the world’s leading communicable diseases professional and Chief Medical Adviser of President Biden, claimed that the coronavirus’s omicron version is “surging through the world” and may eventually replace the lethal delta version as the prevalent strain.
Specialists are trying to warn that the Christmas Holiday and New Years’ celebration will be the major cause of the upcoming wave of Covid 19 in the USA. Also, the two-dose vaccine is ineffective against the omicron type.
The US government officially confirmed that the authorities are working day and night to increase the testing facilities in every State and have directed the State Governors and Mayors to develop more testing centers and increase the capacity of the current testing points in their respective states.
The health authorities have been convincing the citizens that it is possible to travel during the festive period as long as they are fully vaccinated and on top of it if they receive the booster shot it will add an extra layer of protection against the omicron variant. The WHO has also stated that people must avoid massive crowds and big party gatherings. Wearing masks and following other major precautionary measures will keep them safe and secured.
However, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, briefed that the omicron variant possesses the power to infect more than 100 million citizens in the US. The infection rate will remain high due to the highest number of mutants present in the new strain which is 50 and it allows the infection to spread faster than the delta version.
The new analytical evidence suggests that the recent strain may affect millions of further infection rates each day in the United States, but with lesser hospital admissions than the delta version. It is expected that the hospitalization rate will remain at 20 percent which was 45 percent in the delta version of the coronavirus.
Since the disease outbreak emerged, the nation has recently estimated 50 million confirmed cases and more than 840,000 deaths.
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