Omicron sweeps across United States

New York: Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now dominant version of coronavirus in the US, accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron’s share of infections in only one week.

In much of country, it’s even higher. Omicron is responsible for an estimated 90% or more of new



infections in New York area, the Southeast, the industrial Midwest and Pacific Northwest.

The national rate suggests that more than 650,000 omicron infections occurred in US last week. Since end of June, the delta variant had been main version causing US infections. As recently as the end of November, more than 99.5% of coronaviruses were delta, according to CDC data.