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The past two weeks have seen the national daily case average rise dramatically,. Unfortunately, while Omicron has been widely found to cause less severe disease in some people than previous variants, hospitalizations still reached a
on Jan. 11, surpassing the previous record of 132,051 set last January, per Reuters. During an interview with ABC's, MD, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, warned that the situation was leading to very different"We're seeing two sets of things happening: A lot of vaccinated people getting infected. We're doing fine.
," Jha explained."Then we have to start thinking about a long-term strategy for how do we manage this virus and not go from surge to surge feeling like we don't really have a longer-termed approach."may begin to wane relatively soon."I expect this surge to peak in the next couple of weeks," he predicted."It'll peak in different places of America at different times, but once we get into February, I really do expect much, much lower case numbers.
Read on to see which states have experienced COVID surges of more than 150 percent over the past week as of Jan. 11, according to data from