Omicron Isn’t Mild for the Health-Care System | The Atlantic

CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad discusses hospital staffing shortages during the omicron wave.

“Understaffed hospitals can hire travel nurses, but Omicron has spread so quickly that too many facilities ‘are pulling from the same labor pool—and if that pool is sick, where are the reinforcements?’ Syra Madad, an infectious-disease epidemiologist in New York, told me.”

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