Omicron Sweeps The Nation: Now Accounts for 95% Of All New Cases. But There Is A Silver Lining.

The Omicron variant caused 95.4% of new Covid-19 cases in the US last week – and daily COVID cases exceeded one MILLION — for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.

New daily COVID cases exceeded one million on Monday for the first time since the start of the pandemic, reports the CDC. Deaths and hospitalizations remain relatively low, which leads experts to believe that Omicron may actually end the pandemic by creating widespread immunity.

‘We’re now in a totally different phase,’ Monica Gandhi, an immunologist at the University of California told Bloomberg. ‘The virus is always going to be with us, but my hope is this variant causes so much immunity that it will quell the pandemic.’