Omicron has replaced Delta as the most dominant variant of coronavirus in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in data published Monday.
The highly transmissible variant represents 73 percent of sequenced cases for the week ending December 18, while the previously dominant delta variant has caused infection in 26.6 of cases, according to CDC.
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