Hospitals across the United States are postponing elective surgeries to free up staff and beds due to a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Administrators say hospital staff shortages have been compounded in the last month by medical practitioners isolating or quarantining as they themselves are infected or exposed to the virus.
"It's often cancer surgeries or other kinds of care that still needs to happen in a very timely manner for people's safety and health," said Cox. Johns Hopkins had to move one of its hospitals, the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, into crisis protocols; delaying elective surgeries and redirecting staff, spokesperson Danny Jacobs said.
Elective surgeries had just begun to rebound this fall from the delays and cancellations that began when the pandemic hit in March of 2020.
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