The number of Americans hospitalized with Covid-19 infections soared to record levels Tuesday, as the country faces a surge in coronaviruses driven by the omicron variant and some states are bracing for dangerous hospital capacity problems and staffing shortages.
Medical workers are wearing new PPE in the Covid-19 ward at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' campus.
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More than 142,000 Americans were hospitalized with Covid-19 on Tuesday, setting a new record, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
A total of over half a million patients with and without Covid-19 are using up the nation's hospital capacity.
Maryland has fewer spare hospital beds than any other state, with 86.1% of its total inpatient beds in use, followed by Washington, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Rhode Island.
Maryland leads the nation in the share of total beds used for Covid-19, at 37.1%, followed by New York (29.9%), New Jersey, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, Illinois, and Delaware.
In Rhode Island, Kentucky, Texas, and New Mexico, intensive care units are at least 90 percent full, an improvement from mid-September.
Maryland leads the way with 44.2% of the total bed space taken up by coronaviruses, followed by Rhode Island with 42% and Missouri with 40%.
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Many hospitals are having to cut capacity and cancel non essential services due to staffing shortfalls as personnel get sick with Covid-19. New Mexico, Vermont and Rhode Island have the highest percentage of hospitals reporting critical staffing shortages.
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The United States has seen a record-breaking number of Covid-19 infections in the last few days, with daily new cases increasing by over 50% in a single week. The coronaviruses fast- moving omicron variant can undermine the effectiveness of vaccines and has been blamed for this new wave. The researchers say that omicron is less severe than earlier forms of the virus, raising hopes that the intensive care units could avoid a capacity crisis. In response, Maryland and Virginia have imposed states of emergency designed to boost hospital staffing levels, some hospitals in Delaware reoriented staffing and shifted to "crisis standards of care" on Monday, New York ordered dozens of hospitals to halt non-essential services last weekend, and Colorado on Friday cleared the
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The hospitalization rates for adults and seniors remain higher than for child coronaviruses, despite the fact that child hospitalizations have jumped to their highest levels since the start of the Pandemic. Low child vaccination rates and the omicron variant could be to blame for the spike. Children are more likely to suffer from upper respiratory problems than adults, so it could be that it is caused by omicron. Many children are hospitalized for other reasons and just happen to also have Covid-19, as opposed to because of Covid, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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In the last week, the country has averaged 1,552 coronaviruses deaths per day, which is below a record 3,421 deaths in January of 2021. In one week, deaths have jumped 31%, and spikes in deaths often lag behind infections.
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