The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in English) lowered the prevalence rate of the omicron coronavirus variant in the country on Tuesday compared to others such as the delta.
In updated data on its website this Tuesday, the CDC points out that in the week of December 19 to 25, infections by omicron accounted for 58.6%, but they cut the estimate of the previous week, in which they now indicate that omicron was responsible 22.5% of new infections.
A few days ago, the CDC itself had placed the percentage of omicron prevalence in the week of December 12 to 18 at 73.2%, for which they corrected this estimate by more than fifty points.
That week, with the updated data, 77% of the remaining infections were infections caused by the delta variant, and only 0.5% resulted from variants other than omicron and delta.
In any case, the trend is upwards and verifies that omicron is gaining more and more ground as shown in the week after -19 to December 25-, reaching 58.6% of infections, compared to 41.1% of delta .
It should be mentioned that the data corresponding to this last week are still very recent and, therefore, also susceptible to being revised in the next few days, as happened in the case of the week of mid-December.
The contagions by COVID-19 in the United States they have accelerated and increased by 66% in the last week, which also saw an increase in deaths from the pandemic of 18%.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University published by CNN, in the last seven days an average of 237,061 new cases was registered, which represents an increase of 66% compared to the previous week.
The deaths, 1,453 on a weekly average, were 18% higher than those of the previous seven days.
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