
“While it is rapidly increasing, we have the tools needed to fight #COVID19,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wrote in a tweet on the new omicron data. In New York and New Jersey, the CDC said omicron is already at 13 percent of sequenced cases.

trajectory appears to be somewhat behind. For example, officials in Britain have estimated omicron will be the dominant variant there within days. The number is expected to rise quickly given the sharp spikes in omicron in other countries. 11, up from 0.4 percent one week earlier. The CDC estimated omicron was 2.9 percent of sequenced U.S. The omicron variant now represents about 3 percent of domestic COVID-19 cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday, showing the new variant is starting to rise in the U.S.
