President Joe Biden will deploy navy medical groups to hospitals in six states the place COVID-19 infections are surging.
Groups of medical doctors, nurses and scientific personnel might be despatched as early as subsequent week to New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico, Biden is predicted to announce on Thursday alongside Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell.
Biden in December directed the protection secretary to prepared 1,000 navy medical personnel to deploy to hospitals throughout the nation as wanted in January and February. The groups now being readied would be the first to begin arriving at hospitals.
They’re going to be despatched to Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, Rhode Island Hospital in Windfall, Henry Ford Hospital close to Detroit, College of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque and College Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
Biden, Austin and Criswell on Thursday may even “be briefed on the administration’s efforts to ship assets and personnel to hard-hit communities throughout the nation which are experiencing a surge in hospitalizations because of the Omicron variant,” in keeping with a White Home official.
-ABC Information’ Ben Gittleson
