* The CDC warns that there will be as many as 1.3 million new COVID-19 cases over the week of Christmas, and a 73% increase in Covid deaths by early January
* The Omicron COVID-19 variant has been sequenced 241 times in 37 U.S. states, including Washington D.C., as the variant continues to spread nationwide
* The CDC reported Tuesday that the variant now accounts for 3% of sequenced of cases - a seven-fold increased from last week, although in NY and NJ the variant is believed to be behind 13% of cases
* It is feared that a 'tidal wave' of Omicron is headed for US shores, with the UK recording its biggest one day case total ever on Thursday- 78,610 - with 10,000 of those cases confirmed as Omicron
* One of the largest US outbreaks of the Omicron variant to date is believed to have occurred at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where almost all 930 cases over the past week are believed to be of the variant
* All of the confirmed Omicron cases in the Cornell University are among people who are fully vaccinated, and some of them are in people who've also had boosters
* Cases in the U.S. have increased by 46% over the past two weeks, and deaths are up 40% - as the country eclipsed 800,000 total deaths and 50 million total cases earlier this week
* In the UK, cases continue to grow, though deaths caused by the virus have actually decreased over the past two weeks
* A recent South African study finds that Omicron spread faster than other virus variants, but is 20% less likely to cause hospitalization
Grim new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have predicted that US COVID-19 deaths will soar by 73 per cent to 15,600 a week by January 8, and that cases will rocket to 1.3 million a week by Christmas Day.
The agency revealed projections on Wednesday afternoon that show America will suffer up to 15,600 new Covid deaths a week as of January 8 - or 2,228 deaths per day - a 58 per cent increase from 8,900 deaths currently being recorded each week, equivalent to 1,285 deaths a day.
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Update: CDC predicts 1.3M new COVID-19 cases by Christmas, 15K weekly deaths by Jan. 8 (NYPost)
WNU Editor: If true, Expect the return of lock-downs.
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we're boned
In other news the CDC has noted two strange facts.
People no longer die of old age.
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Life expectancy dipped a year or remained the same.
Lockdowns didn't work before and the economic damage caused by them will reverberate for decades. As a tool to halt the spread of COVID-19, they don't work. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
Perhaps there's another agenda behind lockdowns. Maybe this explains the obsession our leadership class has with them. It does seem clear that governors of certain major "red states" such as TX and FL. Obviously the leadership class will want them removed by hook, crook, or any means necessary. The coordinated attack against governor Abbott of TX is well under way.
27,241 covid deaths (Americans under the age of 45)...(20 months)
79,000 Fentanyl deaths (Americans under the age of 45)...(12 months)
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
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