{"id":1207278,"date":"2022-01-11T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207278"},"modified":"2022-01-11T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:19:40","slug":"u-s-to-surpass-record-coronavirus-hospitalizations-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-to-surpass-record-coronavirus-hospitalizations-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Surpass Record Coronavirus Hospitalizations this Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-to-surpass-record-coronavirus-hospitalizations-this-week%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207278&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden pledged to \u201cshut down\u201d the coronavirus when campaigning in 2020, but nearly a year after his first day in office, the U.S. is set to surpass record coronavirus hospitalizations this week.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, hospitalizations in the United States totaled 141,386 people, just slightly short of the 142,273 record that was set on January 14, 2021. According to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, the country will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/01\/10\/covid-hospitalized-omicron\/?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&amp;location=alert&amp;wpmk=1&amp;wpisrc=al_news__alert-hse--alert\">cross<\/a> that record as soon as Tuesday:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If models of omicron\u2019s spread prove accurate \u2014 even the researchers who produce them admit forecasts are difficult during a pandemic \u2014 current numbers may seem small in just a few weeks. Disease modelers are predicting total hospitalizations in the 275,000 to 300,000 range when the peak is reached, probably later this month.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday there were 23,524 covid patients in ICUs nationwide, compared with a record 29,591 on Jan. 12, 2021. About 1,200 hospitals \u2014 just under a quarter \u2014 reported a critical staffing shortage this week, and another 120 reported anticipating a staffing crisis within a week, according to data kept by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_19166834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/joe-biden-mask-omicron-coronavirus-wh-121621-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19166834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/joe-biden-mask-omicron-coronavirus-wh-121621-getty.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 16: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the White House COVID-19 Response Team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House December 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden made a brief statement to the press regarding the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the White House COVID-19 Response Team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House December 16, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fortunately, the omicron variant has continued to hold up its reputation for being less deadly than previous variants of the coronavirus, but the reported ease with which omicron spreads has created an upsurge in cases, leading to higher hospitalizations from both the unvaccinated and breakthrough cases. It should also be noted that hospitals have begun to distinguish between patients who tested positive upon arriving for other ailments and patients who are strictly suffering from the coronavirus:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Under Colorado\u2019s crisis standards of care, emergency crews were told to consider not transporting to hospitals patients under the age of 60 who are not showing severe symptoms and who do not have a high-risk medical history.<\/p>\n<p>At University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, about 61 percent of covid patients did not <a class=\"contextual_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have<\/a> coronavirus&nbsp;as their primary diagnosis, meaning they arrived seeking care for another reason but tested positive when checked for covid.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, which runs four public hospitals, reported last week that about two-thirds of its 150 covid patients were incidental cases, up from about 20 percent in last winter\u2019s peak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D)<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/07\/many-nyc-patients-hospitalized-with-covid-admitted-for-other-reasons\/\"> said<\/a> that up to 40 percent of hospitalizations in New York were for patients who experienced other ailments and tested positive for coronavirus at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink of all the other reasons people end up in a hospital,\u201d Hochul said Friday.&nbsp;\u201cYou know, it\u2019s an overdose, it\u2019s a car accident, it\u2019s a heart attack. So, I wanted to drill down into those numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden pledged to \u201cshut down\u201d the coronavirus when campaigning in 2020, but nearly a year after his first day in office, the U.S. is set to surpass record &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1893986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}