Ómicron became the dominant variant in the country, adding more than 100,000 hospitalized patients with Covid-19 conditions.
The United States broke a new record for hospitalizations due to covid-19 on Tuesday, with more than 145,000 people admitted to health centersbased on data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS).
In total there are 145,982 patients hospitalized in the country with covid-19, of which 4,462 are minors.
The figure exceeds 142,273 patients with covid-19 admitted on January 14, 2021, the highest number that had been recorded so far since the start of the pandemic.
This record in hospitalizations coincides with the expansion of the omicron variant, which is already the dominant one in the US.
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In parallel, the country’s hospitals face staff shortages, because many healthcare workers have been infected.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam declared a partial state of emergency on Monday after ICU admissions doubled since Dec. 1.
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Northam’s order allows hospitals increase the beds and gives more flexibility in personnel management, in addition to expanding online health care.
In Texas, about 2,700 healthcare professionals are to be hired and trained to strengthen hospitals, and will add 1,300 workers of booster that have been sent to centers of the state, said the chain CNN, that mentioned a statement of the state sanitary department.
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Meanwhile, Colorado activated a series of measures to tackling the health workforce crisis, such as not transporting patients under 60 years of age who do not have severe symptoms and without a high-risk history to hospitals. (I9
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