President Joe Biden will announce this Thursday the deployment of a military medical person in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico to help hospitals overwhelmed by the wave of COVID-19 cases and staff shortages due to to the omicron variant.
These teams will reinforce Henry Ford Hospital on the outskirts of Detroit, University Hospital in Newark, University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, Cleveland Clinic and Rhode Island Hospital in Providence .
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Some of the hospitals will receive between seven and 10 healthcare workers and others between 20 and 25, according to USA TODAY.
1,000 soldiers will be added to this reinforcement game next week, which will begin to be deployed in hospitals throughout the country, as announced by the Government before Christmas.
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Many health centers are struggling because their workers are being quarantined at home due to the coronavirus, at the same time that there is an increase in infections throughout the country.
Biden will deliver a speech Thursday morning on the "increased response" to COVID-19, according to the White House.
The Administration is focusing on alleviating the disruption stemming from the surge in cases across the country, which is also contributing to food shortages and flight cancellations.
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On Tuesday, Janet Woodcock, acting chief of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told Congress that the omicron variant will infect "most people" and that attention should be focused on ensuring critical services can continue without interruption.
“I think it is difficult to process what is really happening now.
Most people are going to get COVID-19, okay? ”He said.
"What we have to do is make sure that hospitals can continue to function and that transportation and other essential services are not interrupted while this is happening," he added.
Biden will be joined by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who recently recovered from COVID-19, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell.
A paramedic in personal protective equipment cleans the stretchers in the emergency department admission area of NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan in New York on May 27, 2020.John Minchillo / AP
They will highlight the work of the more than 800 military personnel who have been helping civilian hospitals since Thanksgiving and the more than 14,000 members of the National Guard whose work supporting vaccination, testing and patient care it is being covered by the federal government.
The White House announced that the trio will speak with federal personnel already on the ground in Arizona, Michigan and New York to learn about their experiences.
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Since delta variant response teams were first created in July, more than 3,000 personnel have been deployed on a rotating basis in 39 states and four U.S. territories, and the Administration has dispatched more than 5.5 million of personal protective equipment - gloves, gowns, masks - to protect front-line health workers, according to the government.
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