As the Chicago area has likely “passed the peak” of the omicron COVID-19 variant, according to the city’s top doctor, could there be another strain on the horizon?
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"You can see 99.3% is the estimate of all of the COVID cases are the omicron variant and just 0.7% are delta and nothing else is showing up at this point," she said., though she noted the city is"a long way from being out of the woods." According to the latest data from CDPH, Chicago was averaging 2,819 cases per day Thursday, a drop from 5,614 last week. The peak number of daily cases reported in January was 8,553 cases.
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