Biden to Send Military Doctors to N.Y., N.J. and Other States
- Teams are heading to hospitals facing coronavirus case surge
- U.S. hospitalizations are at record high amid omicron’s spread
Since Thanksgiving, more than 350 military doctors, nurses and medics have been deployed to help hospitals.
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The U.S. military will deploy new help to hospitals in New York and New Jersey as they grapple with a wave of hospitalizations driven by the omicron variant.
President Joe Biden will announce on Thursday that his administration is deploying military doctors, nurses and others to six hospitals in six states, including Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn and University Hospital in Newark, the White House said. The workers are relief teams dispatched to ease pressures on overwhelmed health centers.