"I know that the news is focused on Omicron, but we should remember that 99.9 percent of cases in the country right now are from the Delta variant. A handful of Omicron cases have been found in the United States, while Delta cases number in the millions. A Delta surge killed thousands across the Southeast in August and September and appears to be resurgent as people move indoors across much of the country. They suggest that Delta continues to find pockets of unvaccinated people, even in states like Vermont, where vaccination rates are high. Two New Mexico hospitals were operating at 120 percent capacity this week thanks to the Delta variant, while Michigan announced it had more than 4,000 COVID-19 patients in its hospitals.
