COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing across the U.S. due to the 'extraordinarily contagious' Omicron variant, and they will likely continue to rise according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing across the U.S. due to the “extraordinarily contagious” Omicron variant, and they will likely continue to rise, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday.
“If you have many, many, many more people with a less level of severity, that might kind of neutralize the positive effect of having less severity when you have so many more people,” Fauci said.The New York Times Florida’s positivity rate has soared to nearly 14%, up from 5% the week before, according. Georgia’s positivity rate is 24.5%, which is the highest since April 2020.
Pediatric hospitalizations appear to be increasing as well. New York City has seen a fourfold increase in hospitalizations among children since early December, according to aAbout half of these pediatric patients are younger than age 5 and are unable to get vaccinated, the department said. None of the most recent patients in the 5-11 age group were fully vaccinated. About 23% of the 12-17 age group were fully vaccinated.
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