Bob Bednarczyk, a professor of global health and epidemiology at Emory University, said CDC data already suggests that the unvaccinated are hospitalised at much higher rates than those who have gotten inoculated, even if the effectiveness of the shots decreases over time, he said. In January, deaths peaked at an average of 3,400 a day. Around 1,200 people were dying on average every day on December 23, the day before data collection was disrupted by Christmas holidays. Almost 9,000 patients are being admitted every day, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, still some way short of the peak of 16,500 per day seen in January, though this is a lagging indicator. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the number of Americans now in the hospital with Covid-19 is running at around 60,000, or about half the figure seen in January, with top US infectious disease official Dr Anthony Fauci on Wednesday saying early data suggests Omicron will have a lower hospitalisation-to-case ratio. An increase in about 60% in 7-day average of new cases have been seen over the last week, according to Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control. The moving seven-day average of new cases was 265,427 as of Tuesday, surpassing the previous peak of 251,989 set in mid-January 2021, a tracker maintained by the university showed. According to JHU's Tuesday data, the US recorded 512,553 new cases and 1,762 deaths. WASHINGTON: The United States has reached its highest-ever average of new Covid cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University ( JHU), as the Omicron variant spread at a blistering pace.
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