![]() ![]() President Biden will announce new steps the administration is taking to help communities in need of assistance, while also issuing a stark warning of what the winter will look like for Americans that choose to remain unvaccinated, a White House official told Bloomberg. “We are prepared for the rising case levels, and will detail how we will respond to this challenge,” said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. The Rockettes Christmas show was scratched for the season and a number of Broadway shows, including Hamilton, and Tina, about the life of Tina Turner cancelled performances because of outbreaks among cast members. Long-running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live was forced to tape its much-anticipated Christmas episode without a live audience and a scheduled performance by British pop star Charli XCX was cancelled. More than half the positive results were in the city. New York state reported on Saturday that nearly 22,000 people had tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday – eclipsing the previous day’s mark for the highest single-day total for new cases since testing became widely available. “There is no medical school class that can prepare you for this level of death,” said Dr Jacqueline Pflaum-Carlson, an emergency medicine specialist at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Medical officials in Kansas and Missouri are delaying surgeries, turning away transfers and desperately trying to hire travelling nurses, as cases double and triple in an eerie reminder of last year’s holiday season. ![]() Experts in Nebraska warned that its hospitals soon may need to ration care. Ohio became the latest state to summon the National Guard to help overwhelmed medical facilities. Hospitals across the country are struggling to cope with burnout among doctors, nurses and other workers, already buffeted by a crush of patients from the ongoing surge of the COVID-19 Delta variant and now bracing for the fallout of another highly transmissible mutation. The US is also being hit hard by the virus. Omicron is now the dominant coronavirus variant in London, and efforts were stepped up to reach people who haven’t yet been vaccinated or boosted. Shopping centres, cathedrals and soccer stadiums in Britain have been converted into mass vaccination centres. Leaked minutes from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies suggested a ban on indoor mixing and hospitality, the BBC reported.īritain and other nations are also accelerating the pace of booster shots after early data showed that two doses of vaccine were less effective against the Omicron variant. Scientists are warning the British government it needs to go further to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. ![]()
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