Hospitals across the U.S. are beginning to fill up with COVID-19 patients again, but a smaller proportion of cases are severe enough to move to ICU or require mechanical ventilation.
“We are seeing an increase in the number of hospitalizations,” Rahul Sharma, MD, emergency physician-in-chief for NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, told“We’re not sending as many patients to the ICU, we’re not intubating as many patients, and actually, most of our patients that are coming to the emergency department that do test positive are actually being discharged,” he said.
Most Omicron patients in ICUs are unvaccinated or have severely compromised immune systems, doctors told the newspaper.latest data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. About 76% of inpatient beds are in use nationwide, with about 16% of inpatient beds in use for COVID-19. Early data suggests that the Omicron variant may cause less severe disease. But it’s easier to catch the variant, so more people are getting the virus, including people who have someIn New York City, for instance, COVID-19 hospitalizations have surpassed the peak of last winter’s surge, the newspaper reported. In addition, Maryland Gov.
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