CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky joins Shep Smith to discuss the spread of omicron among new Covid cases in the U.S. and what families can do to protect themselves over the holiday season. For access to live and exclusive video from cnbc subscribe to...  moreCDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky joins Shep Smith to discuss the spread of omicron among new Covid cases in the U.S. and what families can do to protect themselves over the holiday season. For access to live and exclusive video from cnbc subscribe to cnbc PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi 

The rapidly spreading omicron variant is now the dominant Covid strain in the U.S., representing 73% of sequenced cases, according to data published Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Omicron has displaced the previously dominant delta variant, which the CDC says is now an estimated 26.6% of sequenced cases for the week ending December 18. Just one week earlier, delta made up 87% of cases to omicron’s 12.6%, the data shows.

The CDC had previously published data for the week ending Dec. 11 showing that omicron represented 2.9% of cases, but has revised the estimate for that period upward.

The omicron Covid-19 variant was first detected in southern Africa in late November and labeled a...    less

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BIDEN: "It will not add to the deficit at all. It will...  more‘Turbocharged’ M&A market could hit a record $6 trillion by year end, says KPMG
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