As COVID-19 cases keep rising, the U.S. could still be weeks away from a peak
The U.S. is still weeks away from a peak in the number of new COVID-19 cases as the country continues to report soaring rates of new infections due to the rapid spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant.
“We believe cases in major metropolitan areas on the coasts will likely peak in the next two weeks,” Chris Meekins, a health policy expert and a health care analyst at Raymond James, told investors on Monday. “Areas in the Midwest will likely trail by a few weeks.” “Both of those things are happening at the same time,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday during a press briefing, later adding: “Those hospital screening programs have been ongoing for months now. So I don’t think that that’s a reason for the [increased] number of cases.”• Citigroup Inc. is moving forward with its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. According to a report in Bloomberg News, Citi employees must be vaccinated by Jan.
• It’s still somewhat unclear how well rapid antigen tests can catch omicron. One expert told The Wall Street Journal that people who are vaccinated and boosted might not get a positive test until three or four days after infection, based on the “peak concentration of the virus.” Another expert said people may be infectious before they have enough virus to test positive.
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