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The Biden administration has been battered by accusations that it failed to anticipate demand for testing after a national vaccine and re-vaccination or booster drive showed clear signs of faltering. We shouldn’t expect a national peak in the coming days.” “The Omicron wave started later in other parts of the country. “The challenge is that the entire country is not moving at the same pace,” Murthy said on CNN’s State of the Union. The rates of infection and levels of hospitalization are set to be much higher in unvaccinated populations. Murthy warned that infections are set to continue to increase in much of the country and the “ next few weeks will be tough”. On a national level, the seven-day rolling average of new cases was still around 800,000 cases a day on 16 January, as it had been for the previous two days.

Over the weekend US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, warned that despite its rapid spread, Omicron had not yet peaked in the US as a whole. President Joe Biden and Hochul said military medical and National Guard teams would be dispatched to help. “Patients are lying in the hallway on stretchers that are touching each other,” said Karen Lam, an emergency room nurse in the Bronx. Several other north-east states – including New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island – may be heading in a similar, down-trending direction.īut in certain areas, including the Bronx in New York City, staff at hospital facilities have issued calls for help, saying they were struggling to treat a surging patient load. The number of people hospitalized fell for a fourth straight day. The state reported 51,264 new cases on Saturday, down from the peak of more than 90,000 a week earlier, according to a New York Times database.

Just one week ago, on a similar number of tests, the positivity rate was almost 20%. Some 400,000 tests were conducted in New York on Saturday, with a positivity rate of 12.9%.