Fauci Predicts Omicron Will Peak in Mid-February as COVID Cases Top 71 Million

The United States has exceeded 71 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 71,574,604 cases resulting in 868,318 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.2%. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci has predicted that Omicron will reach its peak in mid-February. Cases have begun to decline in the Northeast and in the Midwest although are still rising in the South and out West. However, by mid-February, we will have very likely surpassed 100 million COVID cases and will be nearing 900,000 deaths. Even as cases decline it will be a long time before we add fewer than 100,000 cases a day. Ideally, we should be at 10,000 cases or fewer and we got close last June which now seems so long ago. I'm not sure we'll ever get near there again.