New Virus Cases Begin to Slow in U.S. Cities Where Omicron Hit First

A line for coronavirus testing in Washington, D.C., in December. The city is averaging 1,700 new cases a day, down from a peak in early January of more than 2,100.Credit…Kenny Holston for The New York Times At another bleak moment of the pandemic in the United States — with nearly 800,000 new cases a day, deaths rising and federal medical teams deploying to overwhelmed hospitals — glints of progress have finally started to emerge. In a handful of places that were among the first to see a surge of the Omicron variant last month, reports of new coronavirus infections […]

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