The variant of concern, which can evade vaccines, made up 73.2% of COVID cases in the U.S. about a month after it was first discovered.
This appears to be even faster than the spread of Delta in the U.S. back in the summer. On June 8, Biden administration officials said that Delta accounted for 6 percent of new U.S. COVID cases.
It's unclear exactly how much faster Omicron's spread has been due to uncertainties surrounding how long the variant has been in the U.S.
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