People wait at a street-side testing booth in New York's Times Square on Monday. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images People wait at a street-side testing booth in New York's Times Square on Monday. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images The omicron variant is now considered the most…
The new estimates capture cases for the week that ended on Dec. 18.
The new estimates underscore just how rapidly it has spread across the U.S. As of a week prior, Dec. 11, it was only detected in 12.6% of positive COVID-19 cases that were sampled.
The CDC said it was working on revising some of the earlier numbers after officials finish analyzing more samples of the strain.
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