“President Biden will announce Thursday that the federal government is deploying additional medical teams to six states — New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico — to help hospitals struggling to respond to the spike in cases of the omicron coronavirus variant,” the Washington Post reports.
“It’s one of the actions Biden plans to highlight in a speech from the White House complex on the administration’s ‘whole of government covid-19 surge response,’ much of which is already underway.”
Associated Press: “Many facilities are struggling because their workers are in at-home quarantines due to the virus at the same time as a nationwide spike in Covid-19 cases.“
Axios: Covid deaths are climbing as cases skyrocket.
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