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For: EFE
Monday, November 18
CDC rectified misleading data on prevalence of omicron cases in the US.
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lowered the prevalence rate of the Omicron variant in the country with respect to other strains of the coronavirus as the delta.
In updated data on its website this Tuesday, the CDC points out that in the week of 19 at 25 December infections by Ómicron led to the 60. 6%, but cut the estimate of the previous week, in which they now indicate that omicron was responsible for the 22. 5% of new infections.
A few days ago, the CDC itself had placed the percentage of omicron prevalence in the week of 12 to the 18 December in 73. 2% , so have corrected this estimate by more than fifty points .
That week, with updated data, on 77% of the remaining new infections were infections caused by the delta variant of coronavirus, and only 0.5% resulted from strains other than Ómicron and delta.
In any case, the trend is upward and shows that Ómicron is gaining more and more ground as shown the week after – 19 to 25 December- , becoming the 58. 6% of infections, compared to 41. 1% delta.
It should be mentioned that the data correspond Tests to this last week are still very recent and therefore also susceptible to be revised in the next days as happened in the case of the midweek. December.
Infections by COVID – 19 in the United States have accelerated and increased by 66% in the last week, in which there has also been an increase in deaths from the pandemic of one 18%.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University published by CNN, in the last seven days there has been an average of 237, 061 new cases, which represents an increase in 66% compared to the previous week.
Deaths, 1, 453 on a weekly average, have exceeded by 18% those of the previous seven days.
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