Projections shared throughout a White House briefing Tuesday gave the 305,000 figure as the top estimate of how many could die from COVID between now and when the wave is predicted to subside by mid-March.
If the gloomy prediction is even halfway accurate, it would bring America's overall Covid death total - sitting at more than 853,955 as of Tuesday - to more than one million, a mark no other nation in the world has reached.
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The projection comes from the mounting data that the Omicron variant is less severe than its predecessors. Data shown by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week revealed that a person infected with Omicron is 91 percent less likely to die than a person who got Delta.
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, announced last week that the Delta variant was even still responsible for the recent uptick in deaths suffered by the U.S. despite making up a minimal proportion of cases. According to data published by the agency Tuesday, the Omicron variant makes up 99.5 percent of active cases in America.
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On Tuesday, the United States recorded 1,060,547 new cases of the virus, a decrease of 3 percent from a week ago on a rolling average basis.
There were 1,893 new deaths, a five percent growth from a week ago on a rolling average basis.
The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been trending upward since mid-November, reaching almost 1,700 on January 17 - still below the peak of 3,300 in January 2021.
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Cases have soared in recent weeks, getting to 800,000 daily cases on average earlier this week. Testing shortages, the prevalence of asymptomatic cases and many rapid tests going unreported means the figure is probably even higher.
The spike in cases has, fortunately, not also translated into an intense growth of deaths from the highly infectious strain.
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Despite indications that Omicron causes milder disease on average, the unprecedented level of infection spreading through the nation, with cases soaring in many states, means many vulnerable people will become severely sick.
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"A lot of people are still going to die because of how transmissible Omicron has been," announced University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi.
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"It unfortunately is going to get worse before it gets better."
Morgues are starting to run out of space in Johnson County, Kansas, stated Dr. Sanmi Areola, director of the health department.
Over 30 residents have died in the county this year, the vast majority of them unvaccinated.
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