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Two healthcare workers assistance residents cheque successful astatine a mobile COVID-19 investigating tract successful Paramount, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is highlighting the national government's efforts to “surge” subject aesculapian unit to assistance overwhelmed aesculapian facilities upwind the spike successful coronavirus cases and staff shortages owed to the highly transmissible omicron variant.

Starting adjacent week, 1,000 subject aesculapian unit volition statesman arriving to assistance mitigate staffing crunches astatine hospitals crossed the country. Many facilities are struggling due to the fact that their workers are successful at-home quarantines owed to the microorganism astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic a nationwide spike successful COVID-19 cases. The caller deployments volition beryllium connected apical of different national aesculapian unit who person already been sent to states to assistance with acute shortages.

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Biden planned to present remarks Thursday greeting connected the “surge response” to COVID-19, the White House said. The administration's absorption is shifting to easing disruptions from the nationwide spike successful cases that is besides contributing to grocery shortages and flight cancellations.

On Tuesday, Janet Woodcock, the acting caput of the Food and Drug Administration, told Congress that the highly transmissible strain volition infect “most people” and that the absorption should crook to ensuring captious services tin proceed uninterrupted.

“I deliberation it’s hard to process what’s really happening close now, which is: Most radical are going to get COVID, each right?” she said. “What we request to bash is marque definite the hospitals tin inactive relation — transportation, different indispensable services are not disrupted portion this happens.”

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The White House said Biden would beryllium joined by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who precocious recovered from his ain lawsuit of COVID-19, and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. They volition spotlight the enactment of the much than 800 subject unit who person been helping civilian hospitals since Thanksgiving and the much than 14,000 National Guard members whose enactment supporting vaccinations, investigating and caring for patients is being covered by the national government.

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The White House said the trio would talk with national unit who are already connected the crushed successful Arizona, Michigan and New York to perceive astir their experiences.

Biden volition besides denote that six further subject aesculapian teams volition beryllium deployed to Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio and Rhode Island.

The White House said the teams volition enactment Henry Ford Hospital conscionable extracurricular Detroit, University Hospital successful Newark, the University of New Mexico infirmary successful Albuquerque, Coney Island Hospital successful Brooklyn, Cleveland Clinic and Rhode Island Hospital successful Providence.

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