The omicron variant will hit many states next, expert says. Here’s what to expect

Individuals put on face masks as they stand in line for a free COVID-19 take a look at outdoors the Lincoln Park Recreation Heart in Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. A nationwide surge of the omicron variant is anticipated quickly.

Damian Dovarganes, Related Press

Coronavirus circumstances from the omicron variant proceed to surge throughout the nation, regardless that sections of america haven’t seen waves of the omicron variant but.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the previous commissioner of the Meals and Drug Administration, stated on “Face the Nation” Sunday that the omicron variant will peak quickly in areas the place it's hitting now.

• “This does seem like a milder pressure of coronavirus,” Gottlieb stated. “And we even have a whole lot of immunity within the inhabitants. I feel locations which have been arduous hit early, just like the mid-Atlantic, the Northeast, New England, Florida, components of the Pacific Northwest, are possibly two weeks away from peaking, however the remainder of the nation in all probability faces a tough month forward of us.”

Gottlieb stated the omicron variant will strike a number of areas subsequent.

• “I don’t suppose you’re gonna begin to see a nationwide peak till we get into February, as a result of there’s components of the nation that basically haven’t been arduous hit by omicron but. And the virus will unfold round within the nation.”

Utah is one state that has seen an increase in circumstances lately. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox stated final week that “the following few weeks could also be just a little bumpy” for the state of Utah in terms of the omicron variant. However the peak will hopefully occur quickly, he stated.

• “The perfect information is that a number of specialists now consider this wave will assist us transfer from pandemic to endemic section and get issues again to regular,” the governor stated, per the Deseret Information.

The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention stated in December that the omicron variant wave will final into January 2022, with circumstances peaking in that month in keeping with The Washington Publish.

• The CDC warned that the “present will increase in omicron circumstances are prone to result in a nationwide surge within the coming weeks with peak day by day numbers of recent infections that would exceed earlier peaks.”