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We're averaging over 800,000 new cases every day. The previous high was just over 200,000 per day. So this is far and away the most cases we have ever seen, and

We're averaging over 800,000 new cases every day. The previous high was just over 200,000 per day. So this is far and away the most cases we have ever seen, and it doesn't even count the mountain of at-home positives that never get reported. So none of this should be surprising at all. But rates of new cases are already plummeting in the places with the biggest Omicron peaks (the Northeast), so the "labor shortage" is a very short term issue, just like the various other "shortages" the media harps over, which all end up amounting to nothing but a brief inconvenience.

mcguire 5y ago
Remember back last year when the big issue was "Why are we shutting down? We should just go ahead and let it run its course!" Here's why we didn't: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases The peak number of cases reported daily in 2020 was in mid-December, at about 200,000. As standardUser says, we were having about 800,000 cases per day last week. On the other hand, we have vaccines now, and the current variant seems to be less deadly. As a result: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths_newhospitaladmissions https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths... Current new hospital admissions (right axis, completely different scale) are about 20,000 per day, versus 16,500 per day in early January 2021, and 1,700 deaths versus 3,000 last January.