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Fauci and Walensky Speak to Senate on Government’s Pandemic Response

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The Center for Disease Control’s Rochelle Walensky and the government’s leading infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci are speaking to the Senate today on the government’s pandemic response.


  • Monday saw 141,385 people in hospitals with covid-19 across the United States. This figure is close to the previous peak of 142,273 set on January 14 2021.
  • The high transmissibility of the Omicron variant means that hospitalisation are likely to pass that number during the current surge. Disease modelers have predicted that hospitalisations in the 275,000 to 300,000 range are probable by the end of the month.
  • President Joe Biden has stated ambitions to maintain current Covid protocols but more restrictions are possible if hospitalisations continue to rise.

Chart 2: Daily Trends in Number of New COVID-19 Hospital Admissions in the United StatesCDC

Chart 1: Daily Trends in COVID-19 Cases in the United States Reported to CDCCDC

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