Here's what the next few weeks might look like.
Fauci previously suggested that Omicron's surge might reach its peak near the end of January. During a Dec. 29 interview on CNBC'sbypass the variant's spikeFauci based that prediction on what was seen in South Africa, where the Omicron variant first surged."It certainly peaked pretty quickly in South Africa," he told CNBC."It went up almost vertically and turned around very quickly.
"Cases will continue to go up until the wave breaks, however. According to Fauci, it's likely that the U.S. will start regularly hitting one million new infections a day over the next week or so before Omicron hits its peak. The countryfor the first time ever on Jan. 3, according to data from Johns Hopkins University."It's still surging upward. We had about 745,000 cases yesterday. I would not be surprised at all if we go over a million cases per day," Fauci told News 4.