The United States appears to be emerging from its latest coronavirus wave driven by the Omicron variant, data shows, though cases remain far higher than during any previous surge and COVID hospitalizations are at a peak.
A seven-day-average of new daily cases peaked at around 795,000 on January 13, an official tracker maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Though figures over the weekend and public holidays, such as Monday, January 17, are impacted by lower reporting rates and should be treated with caution, numbers were already falling by Friday.
The declines were most pronounced in states that were hit first by the wave, particularly in the northeast, including New York, New Jersey and Maryland. On the other hand, cases were still rising fast in parts of the west, including New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
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