The United States has seen its most ever single-day number of Covid infections in a single day, with over 1 million new infections reported.
According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, 1,082,549 new coronavirus infections were reported Monday, as the highly contagious omicron variant continues to spread across the country.
The fresh daily count has increased the total number of cases discovered in the United States since the pandemic’s start to 56,189,547. At a minimum, the virus has caused 827,748 deaths across the country as a whole.
The record single-day total may be attributed in part to delayed reporting over the holiday weekend. Many states failed to submit data on New Year’s Eve, and many do not submit data on weekends, suggesting that some of these occurrences could be due to prior positive tests.
Nonetheless, as of January 3, the seven-day average of daily new U.S. cases has reached 479,273, which is the highest such statistic for any country monitored by Johns Hopkins.
According to a seven-day average of data from the Department of Health and Human Services, as of January 3, 98,000 Americans were hospitalized with Covid-19, up 32% from a week ago. Covid recorded a peak of roughly 103,000 hospital admissions across the United States in early September, but it remains lower than last winter’s high of about 137,000 U.S. hospitalizations.
According to data from Johns Hopkins, the United States has recorded an average of about 1,200 daily Covid deaths each week since Jan. 3, well below the record numbers seen after last year’s holiday season, when the daily average hovered around 3,000 for roughly a month beginning in January 2021. In other words, the death toll tends to lag behind increases in case counts and hospitalizations.
The omicron variety has begun to surpass the formerly prominent delta strain of the virus in recent weeks, according to experts.
According to the latest available weekly data from the CDC in the United States, which ended on December 25, delta was responsible for around 41% of cases, whereas omicron represented about 58.6 percent of infections.
Given the new variant’s potential to spread, U.S. health officials have urged vaccinations and resistance immunization against the coronavirus while monitoring developments.
Early research suggested that Covid vaccines are less effective against the omicron form than other strains. However, three doses of vaccine — the two initial vaccinations plus a booster — significantly boost omicron resistance by threefold, according to the same research.
The omicron variant, according to study, causes less severe infections.
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