About 120,000 coronavirus cases are being identified each day in the U.S. — up from 80,000 a few weeks ago.
Contagion is expected to worsen as falling temperatures bring more indoor gatherings. Several hospitals in the Midwest and Northeast, the places hardest hit, are already nearing capacity.
This week, Princeton, Cornell and New York universities have canceled events or moved final exams from the classroom to online. In the Midwest, overwhelmed hospitals are making desperate pleas for residents to wear masks and get vaccinated. “This is the new flu,” said Barthold, who lives in the suburbs of Detroit. “People need to get used to it.”
Experts are predicting that the Omicron variant could become dominant in the United States as soon as January.
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