The head of the World Health Organization warned that a lot of COVID-19 cases will pressure hospital systems already on the "brink of collapse."
I am worried that Omicron is leading to a wave of cases, because it is more transmissible than Delta. The WHO Director-General said on Tuesday that this will put immense pressure on exhausted health workers and health systems on the verge of collapse.
The US is in the midst of a historic surge of new infections. The country reported more than 440,000 new infections in one day, shattering the previous record.
The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases is on track to break a Pandemic record, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the CDC, the Omicron variant accounted for almost half of all cases in the US last week.
