Omicron so contagious most Americans will get Covid, top US health officials say

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FDA head Janet Woodcock says most people will become infected, while Fauci says variant will ‘ultimately find just about everybody’

Federal health authorities in America have said the Omicron Covid-19 variant is so contagious it is likely most people in the US will be infected, and compared the pandemic to a “natural disaster”.Authorities said even as Omicron shatters records for new cases, they are hopeful the surge will quickly subside, and said the US needs to focus on ensuring hospital systems do not collapse amid the surge.

With several major mutations, the Omicron variant has spread rapidly around the globe and shattered records for new daily cases in the US. Thethat the variant is now responsible for more than 98% of Covid-19 cases in the US, replacing Delta in less than a month. An average of more than 761,000 Americans a day tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, the day of the hearing, according to the. Even this tally is known to be a vast undercount, because few people report the positive results of at-home rapid tests to health authorities.

 

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