The United States is currently averaging 1,716 deaths per day from Covid, and Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), blames the Delta variant – not Omicron – for causing them.
Walensky said at a news conference Wednesday that the slight increase in deaths over the past two weeks – up 10 percent – are attributable to the little circulation left of the Delta variant, not Omicron.
According to most recent data released by the CDC, the Omicron variant makes up around 98 percent of sequenced cases, with Delta making up just under two percent.
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