The U.S. also has the highest seven-day average of daily new cases in any country tracked by Johns Hopkins.
Summary
- Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty ImagesThe U.S. has reported a record single-day number of daily Covid cases, with more than 1 million new infections.
- The new daily tally brings the total number of cases confirmed in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic to 56,189,547.
- Nonetheless, as of Jan. 3, the seven-day average of daily new U.S. cases is 480,273, the highest such metric of new cases in any country tracked by Johns Hopkins.
- In recent weeks, the U.S. has seen the omicron variant starting to edge out the previously dominant delta strain of the virus.
- Early studies suggested that Covid vaccines are less effective against the omicron variant compared with the delta strain and other variants.