{"id":1169389,"date":"2021-12-29T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169389"},"modified":"2021-12-29T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:19:45","slug":"omicron-chaos-cdc-sharply-revises-estimate-of-u-s-omicron-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omicron-chaos-cdc-sharply-revises-estimate-of-u-s-omicron-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron Chaos: CDC Sharply Revises Estimate of U.S. Omicron Infections\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomicron-chaos-cdc-sharply-revises-estimate-of-u-s-omicron-infections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fauci-CDC-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday sharply revised its estimate of omicron infections in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>While the omicron variant has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/20\/omicron-chaos-democrats-warn-biden-may-need-second-coronavirus-stimulus\/\">plagued<\/a> the Biden administration with chaos,&nbsp;the CDC has revised their estimates of exactly how many coronavirus infections are due to the variant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The CDC guessed the omicron variant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/omicron-dominates-in-u-s-claiming-73-of-fresh-coronavirus-cases\/\">accounted<\/a> for 73 percent of all cases during the week ending December 18. On Tuesday, the number for that week was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2021\/12\/28\/CDC-lowers-estimate-Omicron-infections\/8711640734952\/\">reduced<\/a>&nbsp;to 22.5 percent, a massive reduction from 73 percent two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC surmised&nbsp;59 percent of all infections during the week ending December 25 were due to omicron.<\/p>\n<p>CDC representative Jasmine Reed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/28\/cdc-drops-omicron-prevalence-estimate-526210\">told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em>&nbsp;the&nbsp;discrepancy was due to a miscalculation of the omicron transmission rate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere was a wide predictive interval posted in last week\u2019s chart, in part because of the speed at which Omicron was increasing,\u201d Reed explained. \u201cWe had more data come in from that timeframe and there was a reduced proportion of Omicron.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-offset related-article\">Former&nbsp;Food and Drug Administration&nbsp;Commissioner&nbsp;Scott Gottlieb&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottGottliebMD\/status\/1475848395768086529\">commented<\/a>&nbsp;on the CDC\u2019s inaccuracy on Tuesday and suggested many of the&nbsp;hospitalizations previously attributed to omicron could be a result of the delta variant.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSetting aside the question of how the initial estimate was so inaccurate, if CDC\u2019s new estimate of Omicron prevalence is precise then it suggests that a good portion of the current hospitalizations we\u2019re seeing from COVID may still be driven by Delta infections,\u201d&nbsp;Gottlieb said.<\/p>\n<p>As the omicron variant continues to confound the Biden administration\u2019s management of the virus that Biden promised to shut down, the president reversed course last week and suggested the federal government cannot shut the virus down.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first thing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> and I will do in the White House is get this virus under control.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\/status\/1323439729988296704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Biden\u2019s statement is contradicted by an additional nationwide mandate he and his administration are apparently considering. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/joe-biden-to-impose-domestic-travel-vaccine-mandate-if-medical-experts-approve\/\">told<\/a> reporters on Tuesday that he would force domestic travelers to get vaccinated if health experts agreed with the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/joe-biden-to-impose-domestic-travel-vaccine-mandate-if-medical-experts-approve\/\">sent mixed<\/a> signals about whether a domestic air travel mandate would be implemented. On MSNBC he seemed to suggest the mandate would be necessary, yet on CNN he said the mandate is not likely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think [it] is reasonable to consider,\u201d Fauci said on MSNBC. But on CNN he stated, \u201cI doubt if we\u2019re going to see something like that in the reasonably foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday sharply revised its estimate of omicron infections in the United States. 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