Two years ago today, the U.S. reported its first known case of the new virus circulating in China. To date, COVID-19 has killed over 860,000 Americans.
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Additionally, unvaccinated adults had a 13 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and a 68 times greater risk of dying from it as compared to fully vaccinated individuals with a booster. The first official case was detected on Dec. 1 in California. But a review of the national wastewater surveillance system indicates that the variant could have been present as early as Nov. 21, according to samples collected in New York City.Hospitalizations at record high, cases dropping in some areasMore than 160,000 COVID-19-positive Americans are currently in hospitals -- a pandemic high and double the number from about three weeks ago, according to federal data.