U.S. sees Omicron variant accounting for 95% of COVID-19 cases

The United States continues to see a rapid spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, with the highly contagious strain making up over 95 percent of new cases, data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Tuesday.Daily COVID-19 cases in the United States have been skyrocketing around the holiday season, with a tally by Johns Hopkins University showing that on Monday the figure topped 1 million for the first time."These coming weeks are going to be challenging," President Joe Biden said Tuesday ahead of a meeting on the coronavirus pandemic, noting that 35 million peo…READ FULL ARTICLE