It emerged on Wednesday that the average number of daily COVID-19 cases in the United States hit a record high of 258,312 over the past seven days. On Jan. 8 of this year, the previous peak for the seven-day moving average was a figure of 250,141. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Omicron variant was estimated to make up 58.6% of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States as of Dec. 25.
