Nineteen states have less than 15% remaining capacity in their ICUs, according to data Wednesday from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Nationally, the number of people hospitalized in the U.S. with COVID-19 has reached a record high — 151,261 as of Wednesday. And as infection spreads, states and health care systems nationwide are handling shortages of available medical workers, who face a greater chance of Covid-19 exposure and must isolate after testing positive.
Early research indicates the Omicron variant may produce less of a chance of needing hospitalization than prior COVID-19 variants. But Omicron’s increased transmissibility means more people who are at higher risk for severe disease, such as those who are unvaccinated or immunocompromised, will be infected.
While conditions are not as dire as at the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago due to the availability of vaccines and other treatment options, the staffing shortages in hospitals are a real concern during this latest surge, said Dr. Craig Spencer, director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
“The problem is that right now we have hospitals where there’s not enough nurses to take care of the patients who are coming in, the COVID patients and the non-COVID patients,” Spencer told CNN’s Laura Coates on Wednesday. For those who come into emergency rooms for non-COVID reasons yet test positive, hospitals are still having to invoke quarantine protocols for those patients which puts a strain on operations, he said. And that can have an effect on all patients.
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