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COVID-19: US hospitals face overwhelming virus crisis as consumers flock to testing sites

*President Joe Biden’s administration is set to deploy 1,000 US military medical personnel at the hardest-hit health care facilities as some states have mobilised the national guard to provide some relief

 Alexander Davis | ConsumerConnect

Amid the renewed surge in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, in city after city and state after state, hospitals are filling up with COVID-19 patients in the United States (US).

ConsumerConnect gathered the US health officials say the number of pandemic-related hospitalisations is at an all-time high, pushing medical staff to the brink.

COVID-19 hospitalisation in US

Report also indicates some states have mobilised the national guard to provide some relief.

President Joe Biden’s administration is ready to deploy 1,000 US military medical personnel at the hardest-hit health care facilities around the country.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said: “The sudden and steep rise in cases due to Omicron is resulting in unprecedented daily case counts, sickness, absenteeism, and strains on our health care system.”

Meanwhile, hospitals are not the only institutions that are being nearly overwhelmed by the Coronavirus, as Americans are flocking to COVID-19 testing sites, report stated.

Sites around the country that administer COVID-19 tests are also seeing long lines of people.

People who aren’t lining up at test centers are often going from drug store to drug store to look for at-home test kits, which reportedly have been hard to find since the Omicron variant quickly spread across the country.

Asa Wooten, a Drug Emporium pharmacy technician in Lubbock, Texas, told Reuters, said:  “About every fourth person walking into the store is trying to find a kit.

“Within the first hour of being open today I had 10 people come up here and ask me about kits, and we have people calling all the time.”

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