The US registers the same number of COVID-19 cases in a week as in the first 6 months of the pandemic

2022-01-08T02:56:24.939Z

Such is the aggressiveness of the omicron variant that the country added four million cases of COVID-19 in the first week of January. Despite the average of 400 positives per minute, the CDC director believes that "we have not yet seen the peak of this wave."