The CDC revised their data on the prevalence of the omicron variant in new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the alarm that the hyper-contagious omicron variant accounted for most of the new infections over the last couple of weeks was overestimation.
The data released on Tuesday shows that omicron is still the dominant variant, but that delta is still a worrisome force behind the current surge.
The CDC reported that as of December 18th, 73% of new cases were linked to omicron. The agency revised the figures on Tuesday, saying that the new variant was not infecting people at the rate the CDC had projected.
