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2. As it has been in 17 other U.S. states. Surprising that the 2nd most populous state has taken this
Mon Dec 6, 2021, 11:20 PM
Dec 2021

long to find one.

https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+u.s.+states+that+have+detected+omicron&oq=number+of+u.s.+states+that+have+detected+omicron&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.9530j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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I wrote the below Saturday early A.M. (Since then, Saturday and Sunday have come in higher than any of their respective days going back many weeks, so the 7 day average has continued to climb, as have the 14 day comparisons. As I write this, the Monday cases have not yet been included in the nytimes site (link below), they usually are by 10 PM CT.). To be clear, these are all Covid-19 cases, not any one particular variant. Omicron cases are almost nil in these numbers, so this is kind of scary as we will be gaining omicron cases faster than we lose delta cases for a while, in other words it won't be one-to-one displacement for a while. And the Omicron cases will be on top of an ongoing grim surge of Covid-19 cases that began October 25.

====== Written Saturday A.M. =====================

Meanwhile, U.S. 7 day new case avg is now highest since Oct. 3, reversing 2 months of progress

U.S. and Minn. both break past their pre-Thanksgiving 7 day mvg avg peaks in daily new cases

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
(no paywall no quota. The "Last 90 days" button above the graph is extremely helpful)

The U.S. as a whole -- 7 day moving average of daily new cases has surpassed the pre-Thanksgiving peak and is now the highest since Oct 3, reversing exactly 2 months of progress.

Top 10 in Daily new cases per capita, 7 day moving average (again as of Saturday early am)

#1 New Hampshire
#2 Minnesota
#3 Michigan
#4 Wisconsin
#5 Rhode Isl
#6 NoDak
#7 Vermont
#8 Ohio
#9 Indiana
#10 Massachusetts

31 states have rising cases, 18 are falling, and 1 flat over 14 days,
for a 31-18-1 record

As for Minnesota, the 7 day average is the highest its been since December 11, reversing very nearly a year's worth of progress.

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