Has the omicron wave peaked in the U.S.?
Case counts have a long way down to go, meaning many more infections are expected in the coming weeks.Jan. 22, 2022, 2:22 PM UTCCovid-19 cases are finally falling in the United States, welcome news after nearly two months of skyrocketing case counts driven by the highly infectious“Nationally, the case numbers are coming down, which I consider an optimistic trend,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a White House Covid briefing Friday.
According to Katriona Shea, a professor of biology at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the coordination team for the, a group of institutions that pool multiple models to create pandemic projections, cases and hospitalizations are expected to peak before the end of January in most states.
Shea said that cases in the rest of the country and deaths, which lag behind cases, are expected to trail shortly after.Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health.