Man, I swear, today's news seems like yesterday's news, and the week before, and the year before that...

January 13, 2022 The Morning Sixpack (Daily Grind News) Omicron continues to wreak havoc in the US, causing supply chain shortages and hospital ICU bed capacity issues as hospitalizations are now the highest they have been with COVID.

Only the variants' names have changed...

Read today's news here.

A snippet:

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4 states have less than 10% of ICU beds left as health care staffing shortages complicate care

As a record number of Americans are infected with Covid-19, largely due to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, some states' health care systems are beset with nearly full intensive care units.

Four states have less than 10% remaining capacity in their ICUs, according to data Wednesday from the US Department of Health and Human Services: Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana and New Hampshire.

And as infection spreads, states and health care systems nationwide are handling shortages of available medical workers, who face a greater chance of Covid-19 exposure and must isolate after testing positive.

Members of the National Guard and other federal emergency teams have been deployed to hospitals and long-term care facilities in places such as New Hampshire to alleviate the burden with medical and non-medical tasks.

“This is part of the winter surge, part of the long haul, which is why we put so many of the mitigation strategies and measures in place early on to help provide some flexibility to hospitals and health care systems,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Wednesday.

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Bill

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