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These first signs seem to indicate that the peak could have been reached in places, following a pattern of meteoric rise quickly followed by a fall, already observed in South Africa or the United Kingdom.
New York thus recorded an average of 28,500 daily cases as of January 10, against 42,000 almost two weeks earlier, according to official data from the city.
The trend was also slowing down in Washington, the American capital, hard hit by Omicron.
Same pattern in Chicago or in certain states like New Jersey or Maryland.
Experts are careful, however, to draw hasty conclusions, faced with an unpredictable virus and a majority of states still recording rising case curves.
The country is currently registering an average of 780,000 new infections per day.
The first cases of Omicron had been identified at the very beginning of December in the United States, and this variant, which very quickly became the majority, triggered a fifth wave at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic.
Although Omicron generally causes less severe cases of the disease than the Delta variant, it is also more contagious and therefore leads to an outbreak of infections. The fraction of people falling seriously ill is therefore not negligible in absolute number.
The country is thus recording a record number of hospitalizations, with nearly 160,000 people with COVID-19 currently occupying a bed.
More than 1,700 people die from the disease on average each day in the United States.
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These first signs seem to indicate that the peak could have been reached in places, following a pattern of meteoric rise quickly followed by a fall, already observed in South Africa or the United Kingdom.
New York thus recorded an average of 28,500 daily cases as of January 10, against 42,000 almost two weeks earlier, according to official data from the city.
The trend was also slowing down in Washington, the American capital, hard hit by Omicron.
Same pattern in Chicago or in certain states like New Jersey or Maryland.
Experts are careful, however, to draw hasty conclusions, faced with an unpredictable virus and a majority of states still recording rising case curves.
The country is currently registering an average of 780,000 new infections per day.
The first cases of Omicron had been identified at the very beginning of December in the United States, and this variant, which very quickly became the majority, triggered a fifth wave at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic.
Although Omicron generally causes less severe cases of the disease than the Delta variant, it is also more contagious and therefore leads to an outbreak of infections. The fraction of people falling seriously ill is therefore not negligible in absolute number.
The country is thus recording a record number of hospitalizations, with nearly 160,000 people with COVID-19 currently occupying a bed.
More than 1,700 people die from the disease on average each day in the United States.
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