Record-Breaking 1.4 Million New Daily Covid Cases In U.S.; Hospitalizations, Test Positivity Also Hit All-Time Highs
deadline.comDriven by the Omicron variant, the U.S. saw a record number of new cases, hospitalizations and an all-time high test positivity rate on Tuesday.Johns Hopkins University reported 1,483,656 new daily cases in the country on Tuesday.
That’s more than 300,000 cases above the previous high of 1,044,970 cases, set January 3, just eight days before.The jump is being fueled by a 7-day average test positivity rate that was 26.3% as of Sunday, which is also a record.
That number — which is generally considered a better measure of infection spread than cases, because it is an average taken over the course of seven days — was up about 25% from the previous week, when it clocked in at 20.9%.
The previous all-time high of 23% was set April 3, 2020.A test positivity rate of 26% means that one in every four Americans is testing positive for the virus.
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