New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the old record mark of 250,000 set in mid-January. 9News
chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus saying he is worried about omicron combining with the delta variant to produce a "tsunami" of cases. That, he said, will put "immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems on the brink of collapse".The number of Americans now in hospital with COVID-19 is running at around 60,000, or about half the figure seen in January, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
COVID-19 deaths in the US have climbed over the past two weeks from an average of 1200 per day to around 1500. CDC data already suggests the unvaccinated are hospitalised at much higher rates than those who have been inoculated, even if the effectiveness of the shots decreases over time, he said.
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