About 500 National Guard members are expected to be deployed and trained across 55 hospitals in Massachusetts this week.
"If there's one thing that we know about this virus, it's that we never know what it's going to do next," said Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious disease physician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston."But, if I were a betting girl, I would say that we are headed for a period of very, very high cases and then potentially, that will turn around quickly."
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker last week activated around 500 National Guard members to be deployed across 55 hospitals in the state. Above, inside the hot zone, medical staff monitor and treat sick patients infected with COVID-19 at the UMASS Memorial DCU Center Field Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, on January 13, 2021.
Another directive from state health officials originally announced last week—the postponement or cancellation of all nonessential elective procedures likely to result in admission—also took effect Monday. New confirmed coronavirus cases driven by the omicron variant surged to a pandemic high of more than 10,000 per day three days last week, while nearly 1,600 people were in the hospital with the disease, according to the latest data from the state Department of Public Health.
The state's health care system faces a staffing shortage that has contributed to the loss of about 500 medical/surgical and ICU hospital beds this year, state officials have said.
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