Health care workers, already pushed to their limits, are bracing for an onslaught of Covid patients after the holiday season.
Capt. Edward Rauch Jr., an Army critical care nurse, left, tends to a Covid-19 patient on a ventilator at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Mich., on Dec. 17.Hospitals across the country are bracing for a post-holiday surge in Covid-19 cases, driven by the extremely contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus.
With many hospitals at or near capacity, health care staffers are exhausted, Himelfarb said, and another surge in cases, potentially after the holidays, could put hospitals in a dire situation.
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