The latest data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on January 18, local time, showed that in the week ended January 17, the number of newly infected cases of the Omicron strain in the United States had accounted for the number of new cases of new coronary pneumonia in the country. 99.5% of the total confirmed cases and the remaining 0.5% were infected with the delta strain.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the proportion of newly confirmed cases of the Omicron strain has risen rapidly in the past month and a half.
In the week ending December 4, 2021, cases of infection with the Omicron strain accounted for 0.6% of new confirmed cases in the United States within a week; in the week ending January 1, 2022, it accounted for 89.1%; as of January 8 In the week of Sunday, the proportion was 97.9%.
According to the real-time statistics system of global new coronary pneumonia data released by Johns Hopkins University, as of 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on January 17, 2022, a total of 66,356,336 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 851,688 deaths have been reported in the United States.
That means about one-fifth of the country's population has been diagnosed with Covid-19.
A new poll released by CBS and the polling company "Yuguan" on the 16th showed that only 36% of American respondents believed that the United States' response to the new crown epidemic was "going well".
Only 49 percent of the public approve of U.S. President Joe Biden's handling of the pandemic, a sharp drop from 66 percent in the same survey last July.
(Making Yueziyan)
Responsible editor: [Li Ji]