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The highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave. Deaths are likely to keep rising for days or even weeks. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been climbing since mid-November. It reached 2,267 on Thursday. That surpasses a September peak of 2,100 when delta was the dominant variant. Now omicron is estimated to account for nearly all the virus circulating in the nation. Andrew Noymer is a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine. He says om...

Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks.

Deaths are likely to keep rising for days or even weeks

Mitt Romney's office on Friday said that the senator had tested positive for COVID-19, but was not showing any symptoms. He is fully vaccinated and boosted, as is his wife - who remains negative.

“Omicron will push us over a million deaths,” said Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine.