plenty vaccine supply and that s not a problem, but we do not have enough tests. this is something we should have been on top of it for months and i m disappointed this is where we are as a country right now and i hope in january we will see more testing available, but it would ve helped over the holiday season. mike: the bottom line criticism, the biden administration handling of cobit is that they have been reactionary to developments, not aggressive enough. in an interview this week with abc news president biden defended recent comments by the vice president who said we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists did not upon whose advice and direction we have relied and did not see delta coming. the president said of omicron, how did we get it wrong, no one saw it coming, no one in the world who saw it coming, but here is how others characterized it. i believe the vice president was referring to the fact that if you look at the number of mutations in omicron, it s unpreceden
plenty vaccine supply and that s not a problem, but we do not have enough tests. this is something we should have been on top of it for months and i m disappointed this is where we are as a country right now and i hope in january we will see more testing available, but it would ve helped over the holiday season. mike: the bottom line criticism, the biden administration handling of cobit is that they have been reactionary to developments, not aggressive enough. in an interview this week with abc news president biden defended recent comments by the vice president who said we didn t see delta coming. i think most scientists did not upon whose advice and direction we have relied and did not see delta coming. the president said of omicron, how did we get it wrong, no one saw it coming, no one in the world who saw it coming, but here is how others characterized it. i believe the vice president was referring to the fact that if you look at the number of mutations in omicron, it s unpreceden
average of deaths are about 1,200 per day, which is an increase of 3.5% over the prior week. over the past several weeks, cdc has continued to closely monitor the emergence of the omicron variant. currently over 85 countries have detected omicron and on monday we released updated data for the united states, which estimates that the omicron variant represents approximately 73% of covid-19 cases in the united states. and in some areas of the country, omicron has increased even further. accounting for an estimated 90% of cases in the eastern atlantic states, parts of the midwest, south, and northern pacific states. this rapid increase and the proportion of omicron circulating around the country is similar to what we ve seen around the world. although this is a reminder of continued threat of covid-19 variants, this increase in omicron proportion is what we