President Biden is deploying military doctors and nurses to bolster hospitals amid the spike in COVID-19 cases.
In the last few months, tens of thousands of health care workers across the nation have been terminated over refusing to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates, leaving health care providers in the lurch with staffing shortages while bracing for more patients. Over 30,000 health care workers are out of jobs in New York alone due to the mandates.
“We’re mobilizing an additional 1,000 military doctors and nurses and medics to help staff hospitals,” Biden said Monday (Dec. 27) during the COVID-19 Response Team’s regular call with the National Governors Association.
“FEMA is deploying hundreds of ambulances and EMS crews to transport patients. We’ve already deployed emergency response teams in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New Mexico. We’re ready to provide more hospital beds as well.”