US - Via New York Times - US COVID-19 status for December 17, 2021 - "worrisome trends in the Northeast"

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State of the virus


Update for Dec. 17

• Cases continue to increase across most of the country, with especially worrisome trends in the Northeast.
• The Delta variant remains the dominant source of infection in the United States, but the arrival of the highly infectious Omicron variant has contributed to a steep rise in cases in New York and other states.
• Vaccinated people without booster shots are believed to be more vulnerable to infection by Omicron. The severity of disease caused by the new variant remains unclear.
• Connecticut and Maine are among several places seeing explosive rates of case growth. Reports of new cases are up about 150 percent in both those states over the past two weeks.
• Hospitalization rates remain very high in much of the Midwest and New England. A doctor in Michigan, the state with the highest hospitalization rate, described “living in a constant crisis.”
• The United States recently surpassed 800,000 coronavirus deaths, the most of any country. About 1,300 deaths continue to be reported each day.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

 

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