According to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading faster in…
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According to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading faster in New York and New Jersey compared to other states. Walensky said that the new variant is estimated to account for about 3% of infections that are being genetically sequenced nationwide, with the highest rates being recorded in those two states.
âIn some areas of the country, the estimates of Omicron are even higher including in New York and New Jersey, where CDC projects that omicron could represent about 13% of all cases,â Walensky said at a COVID-19 press briefing.
Experts have suggested that the case rates are likely far underreported due to the easy transmissibility of the variant. The CDC director said that Omicron is more contagious than Delta, which currently accounts for a majority of the nationâs COVID-19 cases. Omicron will likely surpass delta in the near future as cases have been doubling on a daily basis.
