War News Updates: U.S. Reports Over One Million New COVID-19 Cases In 24 Hours

Daily Mail: US hits record 1,082,549 COVID cases in a single day but hospitalizations are well below peak and deaths remain relatively low at 1,688: Experts hope Omicron 'causes so much immunity it will quell the pandemic'

* New daily COVID cases exceeded one million on Monday for the first time since the start of the pandemic

* Alarming number follows a holiday weekend which likely delayed reporting for several days

* But hospitalizations and deaths have remained relatively steady, with 1,688 new deaths on Monday

* Evidence continues to mount that Omicron is a milder strain with less risk of severe illness

* Cases appear to be plateauing in London, which is a few weeks ahead of the US in the Omicron surge

* Even British advisor 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson admits he is 'cautiously optimistic'

The US has smashed records for new daily cases of COVID-19, recording more than one million infections in a single day, but deaths and hospitalizations remain relatively low in a sign that the Omicron variant could bring the pandemic crisis to an end.

Across the country, there were 1,082,549 new cases recorded Monday, a number likely inflated by reporting delays over the holiday weekend.

On a rolling-average basis, daily cases are at 494,732 over the past seven days, up more than 110 percent from a week ago, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of Johns Hopkins University data.

However, deaths and hospitalizations remain relatively low, leading some experts to predict that Omicron will effectively end the pandemic by creating widespread immunity with limited loss of life.

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