The CDC has significantly revised the estimate of the percentage of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. caused by the Omicron variant. Learn more:
Public health experts told the newspaper that they weren’t surprised by the CDC’s revisions, given that early data is always an estimate within a range known as a “confidence interval.” The actual number of variant cases can only be confirmed with genetic sequencing, which is done with a portion of samples across the country.
The new estimate of 59% is also a confidence interval calculation and could be revised, the newspaper reported. The percentage of Omicron varies across the country as well. In Wisconsin, for instance, the variant made up half of the cases on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 3 days, O’Connor told the newspaper. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, Omicron makes up more than 80% of cases.
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