The Wall Street Journal, referring to representatives of the health sector, said that the United States is expected to increase the number of patients infected with the new Omicron strain. It was also reported that the country’s hospitals are not ready for this.
According to the publication, the separation of intensive therapy is overflowing in need of urgent treatment (with cardiovascular and cancer) and infected delta option. Doctors note that unawareness increases the lack of personnel.
Specialists emphasize that such delays with the provision of the necessary assistance to a person causes the risks of serious complications. The newspaper notes that during the previous Pandemic waves in the US, some patients died, without waiting for intensive therapy.
Earlier, director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases of the US Anthony Faucci prejudice to Americans, a heavy winter because of the Omicron-strain of coronavirus. The main infectiousness of the United States stressed that a new strain has extraordinary distribution capabilities, and suggested that in the next two weeks the number of cases of infection in the United States will grow.