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US President Joe Biden is expected to announce Thursday a new series of medical teams deployed by the federal government in six states to help hospitals fight COVID-19, an official reported. from the White House to CNN.
Military medical teams will support the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Henry Ford Hospital outside Detroit, the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque and the University Hospital in Newark, NJ, the official said.
"These teams will provide assistance, triage patients, help decompress overburdened emergency departments, and free up healthcare providers to continue other life-saving care. They will work alongside healthcare workers on the front lines to support them. they need, "added the official.
The deployments come at a time when the Biden administration is facing increasing scrutiny alongside record covid-19 hospitalizations, testing challenges, and communication frustration - themes the Republican Party seizes on. .
More than 151,000 Americans were hospitalized with COVID-19 across the country as of Wednesday, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
And the United States registered an average of more than 747,260 new cases of covid-19 a day during the last week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU for its acronym in English).
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This figure triples the maximum average of last winter (251,987 on January 11, 2021) and multiplies the peak of the wave driven by the delta variant by 4.5 (166,347 on September 1), according to the JHU.
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Federal doctors are "part of the first series of deployments" to help in the current wave of covid-19
The wave of covid has put hospitals across the country under considerable strain.
And, to combat the enormous pressure on health services that comes as more staff members declare themselves ill from the virus, state leaders enacted emergency procedures to help hospitals cope.
"The sudden and steep rise in cases due to omicron is leading to an unprecedented daily count of cases, illnesses, absenteeism and stresses on our healthcare system," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Biden announced plans last month to mobilize 1,000 military doctors to help overflowing hospitals amid the omicron wave.
"These are just part of the first series of deployments," the White House official said of the latest mobilizations.
"The teams will continue to be mobilized and deployed where they are needed in the coming weeks to deal with omicron."
The president will be accompanied this Thursday by the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Deanne Criswell, for a briefing on the deployment of resources and personnel.
They will also speak with federal backup teams already deployed to hospitals in Arizona, New York and Michigan.
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