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Dec 20, 2021

Omicron variant sweeps across nation, becoming dominant strain in US COVID-19 cases

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron’s share of infections in only one week.

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