As omicron looms, US is still battling the delta wave

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FILE - Licensed applicable caregiver Yokasta Castro, of Warwick, R.I., draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe astatine a wide vaccination clinic, May 19, 2021, astatine Gillette Stadium, successful Foxborough, Mass. While each eyes are connected the caller and little-understood omicron variant, the delta signifier of the coronavirus isn't finished wreaking havoc successful the U.S. There is overmuch that is chartless astir omicron, including whether it is much contagious than erstwhile versions, makes radical sicker oregon much easy thwarts the vaccine oregon breaks done the immunity that radical get from a bout of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Posted at 12:26 PM, Dec 02, 2021

and past updated 2021-12-02 13:26:48-05

While each eyes are connected the caller and little-understood omicron variant, the delta signifier of the coronavirus isn’t finished wreaking havoc successful the U.S., sending grounds numbers of patients to the infirmary successful immoderate states, particularly successful the Midwest and New England.

The U.S. recorded its archetypal known omicron corruption connected Wednesday, successful a afloat vaccinated idiosyncratic who had returned to California from South Africa, wherever the variant was archetypal identified conscionable implicit a week ago.

For now, the extra-contagious delta variant accounts for practically each cases successful the U.S. and continues to inflict misery astatine a clip erstwhile galore hospitals are struggling with shortages of nurses and a backlog of patients.

And now, the fearfulness is that omicron volition foist much patients, and possibly sicker ones, onto hospitals.