President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser has warned of mounting “stress” on the US hospital system as new coronavirus cases tied to the highly transmissible Omicron variant start “raging” through America and the world.
“Our hospitals, if things look like they’re looking now, in the next week or two, are going to be very stressed with people,” Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, told ABC on Sunday.
“We have so many people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not yet been vaccinated. And that’s going to be a real problem for stress on the hospital system,” he added.