The number of cases rose by 27 percent from the 1.171 million new cases registered last Monday, January 3, the prior one-day record. That was the first time daily cases surpassed the one million mark. Deaths this week rose by 12 percent from the 1,688 recorded last Monday.
States don't report complete case data over the weekend, which means infection and fatality figures slump on Saturday and Sunday, with Monday's numbers always including a backlog of cases. That means that infection numbers will probably fall in the future.
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On Monday, the United States reached a new record for the number of Americans hospitalized with the COVID, with 132,646 now admitted with the virus, higher than the 132,051 record established in January last year.
It is yet another marker set throughout the U.S.'s Omicron-fueled virus surge.
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Despite increasing hospitalizations, not as many Americans are dying from the virus as they were in previous surges. Not all of these hospitalizations are directly generated by the virus.
Numerous people who go to the hospital for reasons outside of COVID, such as injury or other ailments, are being tested while there.
Deaths are growing slower, with 1,648 Americans dying from the virus every day - an 11 percent growth from two weeks ago. This signals either the vaccines' effectiveness or the more mild nature of the new strain.
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Omicron cases continue to grow in the U.S. Still, deaths caused by the virus are not following at the same rate, signaling the variant that has ground much of America to a halt is not making people as ill as the Delta variant.
Cases have more than tripled over the past two weeks alone, up from 198,326 per day to 709,850 per day.
On Sunday, Dr. Walensky appeared on Fox News and failed to answer whether or not many deaths presently being attributed to the virus have other causes. She told ABC's Good Morning America last week that 75 percent of people who have died from the Omicron variant in the U.S. have at least four comorbidities - in what she called "encouraging news."
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The U.S. exceeded 60 million total cases of the virus as of Monday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University, another grim milestone for the nation.
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