The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. was 265,427 on Tuesday, well over the previous record set in mid-January, according to Johns Hopkins.
President Joe Biden announced that the federal government would for the first time start mailing 500 million free rapid tests directly to Americans in January.cases in the U.S. hit the highest level since the start of the pandemic this week amid two highly infectious variants of the coronavirus continuing to circulate worldwide.
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, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While hospitalizations sometimes lag behind case numbers, the figures may indicate omicron is not making people as severely ill as previous versions, as many experts suspect.
increased by 11% last week compared with the previous week, with the biggest increase in the Americas.
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