Six more U.S. states confirm their first cases of the Covid omicron variant as experts warn the highly contagious delta variant will likely remain the greater threat as winter sets in.
New Jersey, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Utah all reportedcases, while in New York City, officials reached out to a man who tested positive for the variant and had attended an anime conference at a Manhattan convention center last month along with more than 50,000 people.
, told “NBC Nightly News” there were about 90,000 new cases a day in the U.S. and “right now, 99.9 percent of them still are the delta variant.”
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