Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the wrath of the omicron variant and are getting thrown into disarray that is different from earlier COVID-19 surges because of staff shortages.
Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the wrath of the omicron variant and getting thrown into disarray that is different from earlier COVID-19 surges.
Nearly two years into the pandemic, frustration and exhaustion are running high among health care workers. Dr. Fritz François, chief of hospital operations at NYU Langone Health in New York City, said about 65% of patients admitted to that system with COVID-19 recently were primarily hospitalized for something else and were incidentally found to have the virus.
This week, 36% of California hospitals reported critical staffing shortages. And 40% are expecting such shortages. New York City hospital officials, though, reported that things haven’t become dire. Generally, the patients aren’t as sick as they were back then. Of the patients hospitalized in New York City, around 600 were in ICU beds.
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