Monday, December 23

The National Guard enters the remove and helps doctors exhausted by the pandemic in the United States.


La pandemia ha agotado a personal médico en todo el país.
The pandemic has exhausted medical personnel across the country.

Photo: John Moore / Getty Images

Sandra Mendoza

More and more states in the country turn to the National Guard to request support for medical personnel who is little more than fatigued in hospitals and other care centers, where the fight against the pandemic has lasted approximately two years.

AND who currently crowd hospitals are mostly people who resist receiving the vaccine .

In particular, this phenomenon can be seen in the northeast and the north-central region of the country.

Starting Monday, the use of face masks will be mandatory in New York for five weeks . On Friday, Governor Kathy Hachul warned: “We are entering a period of uncertainty , and we could stabilize here or our cases could get out of control, ”quoted The Associated Press.

This provision includes all public places in closed spaces, unless these require vaccination.

Meanwhile, in Michigan, health director Elizabeth Hertel warned that those who do not get vaccinated are “risking serious illness , to be hospitalized and even to die ”.

Johns Hopkins University notes that the moving average of new infections in seven days, each day, increased in the last two weeks; the CDC finds that the number of hospitalized has also increased. All while the country is close to the 800, deaths from covid – 19 .

Maine summoned 75 members of the National Guard , as it seeks that the supply of monoclonal antibodies helps to prevent patients from having to be sent to intensive therapy. In New York, the National Guard dispatched Air Force medical technicians to medical facilities and nursing homes , to replace exhausted personnel.

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