INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tests have confirmed Indiana’s first known case of the COVID-19 omicron variant, state health officials announced Sunday.
The omicron infection was detected in a test sample collected from an unvaccinated Indiana resident, the Indiana Department of Health said. No information about the patient was released, with the health department citing privacy laws.
The test sample was collected Dec. 9 and the omicron variant was detected this weekend, the health department said.
Indiana was one of just seven states in which omicron had not yet been detected after first being identified last month, according to health officials.
Indiana is averaging about 40 COVID deaths per day this month and hospitalizations with the illness have topped 3,000 people for the first time in nearly a year amid the state’s ongoing infection surge, according to tracking by the state health department. That is up about 150% in the past five weeks as the state’s hospitals are strained with their highest-ever overall patient counts.
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Not sure what the purpose is by mentioning that the first Omicron was found in an “unvaccinated” individual…
The first 3 people (minimum) in the US with the Omicron were all vaccinated…
Omicron is so deadly that………… Africa stopped tracking it. Huge nothing burger just to push more fear mongering.
Nice Jog with the fearmongering red letter scare quotes. Josef Goebbels wold be ecstatic. on the other hand you have shown you hand to patriots. WOWO is not the friend of patriots as long as they try to instill fear on THE PEOPLE.
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