Omicron variant BA2 has numbers trending up, but overall cases and hospitalizations remain at low levels.
Even still, the case numbers are some of the lowest since July 2021. This week’s jump in cases could be related to a two-week backlog in Florida, CNN reported. In addition, hospitalizations and deaths are still declining, with about 15,000 COVID-19 patients hospitalized nationwide and about 500 deaths being reported each day.
On Monday, Philadelphia became the first major city to announce that it would reinstate indoor mask requirements. Cases increased 50% in 10 days, which surpassed the city’s limit for reimposing mask mandates. “I suspect that this wave will be smaller than the one we saw in January,” Cheryl Bettigole, MD, the public health commissioner of Philadelphia, said Monday“But if we wait to find out and to put our masks back on, we’ll have lost our chance to stop the wave,” she added., increasing from 300 million in early January to 400 million in early February to half a billion this week.
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