Omicron 'will infect 60% of US with 140million new cases from January to March'

Some heath experts predict that daily cases will peak at 2.8million on January 28.

The US will see 140million new coronavirus infections driven by the Omicron variant from January to March, some health experts estimate

A majority the projected cases from January 1 to March 1, 2022, will be asymptomatic, according to researchers from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation who revised theirwith data on the new variant. They believe the daily cases will peak at 2.8million on January 28.

In addition, the researchers predict that only about 400,000 coronavirus cases of their massive projection will be reported because many Americans will not feel sick or get tested. The researchers are of the same belief as most health experts at this time that Omicron is less likely to cause severe illness and death than previous versions of the coronavirus. The Omicron hospitalization rate is about 90% to 96% lower than that of the Delta variant which spread widely through the US in the summer.

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