{"id":1187756,"date":"2022-01-04T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187756"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:20:19","slug":"cdc-confusion-omicron-95-percent-of-coronavirus-strains-up-from-22-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-confusion-omicron-95-percent-of-coronavirus-strains-up-from-22-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Confusion: Omicron 95 Percent of Coronavirus Strains, Up from 22 Percent"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fcdc-confusion-omicron-95-percent-of-coronavirus-strains-up-from-22-percent%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=1187756&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\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237535597-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the omicron variant now accounts for 95 percent of coronavirus&nbsp;strains as of January 1.<\/p>\n<p>While omicron has defied the CDC\u2019s past infectious calculations, 95 percent is an increase from December 18, when the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/omicron-estimated-be-954-coronavirus-variants-us-cdc-2022-01-04\/\">estimated<\/a> 22&nbsp;percent of all infections were due to omicron.<\/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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden said he would \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d He lied. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IkKg0HMNi2\">https:\/\/t.co\/IkKg0HMNi2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1478385763742097415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The CDC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/omicron-chaos-cdc-sharply-revises-estimate-of-u-s-omicron-infections\/\">revised<\/a>&nbsp;its data last week.&nbsp;Breitbart News reported December 29:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The CDC guessed the omicron variant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/omicron-dominates-in-u-s-claiming-73-of-fresh-coronavirus-cases\/\">accounted<\/a>&nbsp;for 73 percent of all cases during the week ending December 18. On Tuesday (Dec. 28), the number for that week was&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2021\/12\/28\/CDC-lowers-estimate-Omicron-infections\/8711640734952\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">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;told&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em>&nbsp;the&nbsp;discrepancy was due to a miscalculation of the omicron transmission rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\">According to the CDC, the delta variant has taken a back seat to omicron, accounting for only 4.6 percent of infections within the United States.<\/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>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the omicron variant now accounts for 95 percent of coronavirus\u00a0strains as of January 1. 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