from The Epoch Times:
Two new variants of the virus account for more than half of all reported U.S. cases, the agency said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that COVID-19 levels across the United States are currently “very high” in more than half of the states, with Omicron variants KP.3 and KP.3.1.1 accounting for about half of all cases.
Citing wastewater
data as of Aug. 15, the CDC said that “very high” COVID-19 levels are being observed in 32 states and the District of Columbia, and “high” levels are being observed in 11 states. All of the states along the West Coast and the Mountain states are in the “very high” range,
according to the CDC.
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A separate CDC dashboard shows that, for the week ending Aug. 10, COVID-19 emergency department visits were slightly down, at 2.4 percent from 2.5 percent, while hospitalizations were slightly up, at 3.3 percent from 3.2 percent. During a previous increase in cases in December 2023, emergency department visits peaked at 3.4 percent, according to CDC data.
COVID-19 related deaths,
according to the same CDC data, have been at record low levels for roughly the past three months. For the week ending on Aug. 3, there were 618 deaths recorded across the country, far lower than the roughly 2,000 deaths that were reported every week during the winter of 2023–2024, when there was the most-recent nationwide increase in COVID-19.
In the winter of 2020–2021, upward of 25,000 COVID-19 related deaths were tallied each week, according to CDC data.
In the current wave of COVID-19, the agency’s Nowcast
tracker, which displays virus estimates for two-week periods, shows the Omicron-derived KP.3.1.1 strain accounting for 36.8 percent of positive infections, while the KP.3 variant is at 16.8 percent.
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