Omicron coronavirus variant is now in the USA

The CDC has confirmed the first case of Omicron Coronavirus variant in the USA, it was detected in California, and the stock market sold off to this news. A traveler who returned from South Africa on November 22, 2021, tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant. The person is also fully vaccinated. The person had mild symptoms and are improving, the health officials said.

"When you have a virus that is showing this degree of transmissibility and you're having travel-related cases they've noted in other places already when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably is going to go all over," said presidential medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci in a Saturday NBC interview.

The DOW dropped by 500 points shortly after the CDC confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in California.