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The United States could soon see a sharp drop in omicron cases

HealthDay News – The omicron surge may have peaked in the UK and could be doing the same in the United States, experts report.

That’s because the COVID-19 variant, first detected in South Africa in mid-November, is so contagious that the variant may already be running out of people to infect, the Associated Press reported. In the UK, government data shows reported new COVID-19 cases have fallen to around 140,000 a day over the last week, compared with more than 200,000 daily cases earlier this month.

Meanwhile, a model from the University of Washington predicts that the number of daily reported cases in the United States will hit 1.2 million by Jan. 19 and then drop sharply “simply because everyone who could get infected gets infected.” ‘ Ali Mokdad, Ph.D., a professor of public health at the university, told the AP. “It will come down as fast as it went up,” he added.

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Mokdad even hinted that the true number of daily infections in the United States – which includes people who have never been tested – could have already peaked at 6 million on January 6.

Another team from the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium predicts reported cases in the United States will peak within the week, but there are “still a lot of people who will get infected when we get the hang of it.” drive down the back. consortium leader Lauren Ancel Meyers, Ph.D., told the AP. “By the end of this wave, far more people will have been infected with some variant of COVID,” Meyers added. “Eventually we will be able to draw a line – and Omicron may be that point – where we move from a catastrophic global threat to a much more manageable disease.”

The modeling statistics have raised hopes that the UK and US will soon see what happened in South Africa, where the wave hit record highs in about a month and then crashed, the AP reported.

“We are seeing a significant drop in cases in the UK, but I would like to see them drop much further before we know if what happened in South Africa will happen here,” says Dr Das, told the UK University of East Anglia with the intelligence service. “There will probably be some ups and downs along the way, but I would hope to be done with that by Easter.”

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