WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would deploy more military health workers to six US states starting next week, and giving Americans free masks and more free tests to overcome the omicron variants that spread rapidly throughout the country.
Delivery of 1,000 military health workers is “part of the spread of our nation’s armed forces to help hospitals throughout the country managing this omicron virus surge,” Biden said.
“I know we are all frustrated when we enter this new year,” said Biden, while repeating his message that Covid-19 continued to be “not vaccinated pandemic.” Inpatient AS Covid-19 reached a high record this week after continuing to increase since the end of December, according to the Reuters calculation, while Omicron followed Delta as the dominant variant of Coronavirus.
The US will send health workers, in a team of seven to 25 military doctors, nurses and other personnel, to Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio and Rhode Island to support emergency rooms with a capacity and release extraordinary hospitals Staff for non-covid cases, the White House said on Thursday.
The more aggressive attitude of the White House came after months of criticism from health experts that the government relied too much on the vaccine alone to stop the spread of Coronavirus, especially considering the anti-vaccine motion motivated by politically driven by some Republican officials driven by several officials Republic.
About 62% of Americans are considered fully vaccinated, according to US data.
The Federal Emergency Management Administrator (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell, who joined Biden during his speech, told CNN before “Number one request continues to be a staff,” refers to the countries that request federal assistance.
Other countries tend to need reinforcements military and nurse and other federal nurses, he said.
More tests and the Maksbiden also announced that he would direct the US government to get 500 million additional Covid-19 tests to help meet the demand beyond the country.
The order comes above 500 million tests promised by the White House will be available for Americans in January.
The President also said that administration next week will announce it will make a high-quality mask available for free.
He recorded about one third of Americans reported that they did not wear a mask.
Biden administration has deployed the federal wave team since July to Battle Covid-19.
In December, Biden directed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to prepare 1,000 other medical forces and sent more than 100 federal medical staff to Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Hospitals some states are on or almost capacities.
New Jersey, for example, has 6,089 covid patients at the hospital on Wednesday.
It was proportional to the state record of 8,270 on April 15, 2020.
About 73% of hospital beds in the state filled and 53% of the beds of the intensive care unit were occupied.
In Rhode Island, 86% of all hospital beds are filled and 90% of ICU beds.
There were 133,871 people who were hospitalized with Covid in the United States on average during the past week, Tally showed.
This increase has a tense health system and forces several countries to delay elective operations.
Omicron not only moves the case burden but also has staff who are absent with their own Covid infection or exposure to the virus.
Some countries have declared an emergency to loosen the regulations and free funds to overcome a surge.
Until now, 847,664 people have died because Covid-19 in the United States among 63,268,225 reported a total case because the plague entered the third year.