The U.S. logged more than 1 million new COVID-19 cases for the first time on Monday, with 26 states reporting record numbers.
Travel troubles may be here to stay this winter with storms exacerbating crew staffing challenges amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
"These coming weeks are going to be challenging," President Joe Biden acknowledged Tuesday in an address to the nation before he and Vice President Kamala Harris met with the White House COVID-19 task force. On Monday alone, the U.S. logged more than 1 million new cases, and 26 states reported record numbers of cases. The count is artificially inflated because of backlogged cases from the New Year's weekend. The numbers, though, The surge of infections has overwhelmed hospitals and created staffing shortages that upended air travel and prompted Jacob Lemieux, an infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, said the outbreak is "an omicron pandemic at this stage.
As of Monday, more than 100,000 COVID-19 patients were in U.S. hospital beds – the most since early September, when the delta variant was peaking in the South. About 78% of intensive care unit beds were occupied, and 19,000 patients were in COVID-19 ICU beds. Hospitalizations among children with COVID-19, in particular, are surging. During the week of Dec. 22-28, an average of 378 children ages 17 and under were admitted per day to hospitals, a 66% increase from the previous week , the CDC reported Thursday.
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