US Covid-19 peak may be over but not the pain as deaths rise

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NEW YORK - Even as Covid-19 cases drop and hospitalisations show signs of plateauing in hard-hit pockets of the United States, the still-rising death toll from the Omicron variant highlights the trai

l of loss that follows every virus surge.

The Omicron death toll has now surpassed the height of deaths caused by the more severe Delta variant when the seven-day average peaked at 2,078 on Sept 23 last year. An average of 2,200 people a day, mostly unvaccinated, are now dying due to Omicron. "More infectious variants tend to run through a population very rapidly," said El-Sadr in an email."Even if such new variants cause less severe disease , we will likely still see increase in hospitalisations and deaths due to vulnerability of unvaccinated and unboosted."

"It's certainly reached its peak in certain regions of the country," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease official, said in an interview with MSNBC on Monday."I believe that in the next few weeks we will see - as a country - that it is all turning around." The Omicron wave scrambled the hopes of Americans for a gradual transition into a post-pandemic reality and re-ignited tensions around masking and vaccines in schools and workplaces, exposing once again the deep political fault lines cracked open by the health crisis.

 

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