FILE - Jose Alfrtedo De la Cruz and his wife, Rogelia, self-test for COVID-19 at a No Cost COVID-19 Drive-Through event provided the GUARDaHEART Foundation for the City of Whittier community and the surrounding areas at the Guirado Park in Whittier, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall's delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Omicron, the highly contagious coronaviruses variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall's delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks.
The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been climbing since mid-November, reaching 2,267 on Thursday and surpassing a September peak of 2,100 when delta was the dominant variant.
It is estimated that omicron accounts for nearly all of the viruses in the nation. Even though it causes less severe disease for most people, the fact that it is more transmissible means more people are dying.
Andrew Noymer is a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine. There will be a lot of discussion about what we could have done differently.
The country's death toll is the same as it was last February, when it was at its all-time high of 3,300 a day.
According to a poll this week, more Americans are taking precautions against the virus than before. Many people tired of crisis infections are returning to normal with hopes that vaccinations will protect them.
Some people with Omicron show no symptoms. It can be deadly for people who are older, have other health problems or who are unvaccinated.
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A few years ago, Chuck Culotta was a healthy middle-aged man who ran a power-washing business in Delaware. He felt the first symptoms before Christmas and was positive on Christmas Day. He died nine days short of his 51st birthday.
Todd said his brother was unvaccinated because he had questions about the long-term effects of the vaccine.
He wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do, but he got his shots during the summer.
More than 200 patients are being treated at a hospital in Kansas, where 50 patients have died this month. The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, posted a video of a worker marking a white body bag with the word "COVID" on it.
"This is real", said the hospital's administrator. We don't want to use it if we don't have to.
The morgue has been at or above capacity almost every day in January, which is unusual, according to Dr. Dennis.
The United States has more deaths than any other nation.
In the coming week, almost every state will see a faster increase in deaths, although deaths have peaked in a few states, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland, Alaska and Georgia.
According to CDC data, new hospital admissions have started to fall for all age groups.
In a pre-pandemic world, we see thousands of deaths from the flu. Nicholas Reich, who compiles coronaviruses projections for the hub in collaboration with the CDC, said that they see that in the course of a week.
Reich is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
In other developments.
The White House said Friday that about 60 million households ordered home-test kits under a new government program. The government said it has shipped tens of millions of masks to convenient locations around the country, including to community centers in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Walgreens is one of the pharmacy that is receiving the masks. As long as supplies last, the chain is giving away N95 masks for free. Walgreens said more stores will offer masks soon, despite the fact that the initial wave of stores in the Midwest are listed on the company's website.
The leading organization for state and local public health officials says that contact tracing is no longer necessary. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials urged governments to focus contact tracing efforts on high-risk vulnerable populations such as people in homeless shelters and nursing homes.
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Heather Hollingsworth, Tom Murphy and Jim Salter are Associated Press writers.
Indonesia is bracing for a third wave of COVID-19 infections as the highly transmissible omicron variant drives a surge in new cases, health authorities and experts said Saturday. In the last 24 hours, the country reported 11,588 new infections and 17 deaths. It was the highest daily caseload since August when Indonesia was trying to contain a wave.
The high transmissibility of omicron has caused more people to become infections.
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