While more will be known about omicron in the near future, the toll the new variant is taking on an already taxed health care system is of concern now.
Hospitals, more so perhaps than any other employers, have an obligation to keep everyone inside their walls safe and healthy.
"Boosting and continuing the normal contact precautions continue to be the most effective way to curb the spread of omicron," said Dr. Sunny Jha, an anesthesiologist who has treated COVID patients in Los Angeles and member of the #ThisIsOurShot leadership team. Dr. Shikha Jain, an oncologist with the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, warned that a surge in COVID-19 cases and staffing shortages caused by health care workers who have left the medical field or are sick themselves is creating"a perfect storm."
She said that in Michigan, in the early days of the pandemic,"the National Guard was very helpful in relieving health care workers who were already so burned out."
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