Nationwide, the U.S. is now averaging about 650,000 new COVID cases per day.

That’s a 17% drop over the past two weeks, but still a very large number of cases…

But Omicron has not burned out yet in most of the U.S. It is still gaining ground — meaning new infections are still on the rise — in 28 states.

And deaths from COVID-19 are rising. The virus is now killing more than 2,300 Americans per day, on average — an increase of almost 30% over the past two weeks.