An average of more than 1,000 hospitals nationwide are currently reporting daily critical staffing shortages largely due to vaccine mandates, according to HHS data.
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- More than 152,000 people in the U.S. were hospitalized with Covid as of Wednesday, up 18% over the last week, according to Health and Human Services.
- Joe Biden on Thursday announced the deployment of six teams of military medical personnel to overwhelmed hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico.
- The deployments, which total 120 personnel, come as hospitals grapple with staffing shortages as nurses and other medical personnel call out sick from omicron amid a surge of patients infected with the highly contagious variant.
- Biden also said the administration plans to buy an additional 500 million Covid tests, on top of the 500 million it is already procuring, to distribute for free across America.
- The U.S. has deployed more than 800 military and emergency personnel since Thanksgiving, Biden said. More than 14,000 National Guard members have also been activated in 49 states to assist with the response to Covid, according to the president.
- Biden said the U.S. has also more than tripled the national stockpile of high quality N95 masks.
SOURCE: CNBC
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