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Understaffed hospitals are already coping with increased patient demand heading into the holidays. They have few options to expand if omicron creates a huge new wave of COVID patients.
"This is not the time to be in a motor vehicle accident because the care that we would love to give you, it is severely hindered," one doctor said.
The variant is expected to become the "dominant strain" in the coming weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Friday.
The research is still underway on the virulence of the Omicron coronavirus variant - but what's abundantly ...
With COVID cases on the rise, hospitals prepare for an omicron-driven winter surge even as they attempt to hire more nurses and staff.