N.J. hospitals have seen the number of COVID patients more than double in just two weeks as their workers struggle with burnout and coronavirus infections.
has come to fruition, filling hospitals across New Jersey following the holiday season as the highly infectious omicron variant continues to spread and exacerbate staff shortages.
The steady rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations comes as medical facilities are grappling with staffing shortages — especially among nurses — because of myriad factors linked to the pandemic, including exhaustion and mental stress. Now add frontline workers who themselves contracted the coronavirus. “The last thing we can allow is for our hospitals to be overrun,” Murphy said at the briefing, which was held virtually afterAs many as 6,000 to 9,000 hospitalizations are possible when this wave crests, possibly in mid-January, according to Persichilli.
“This is clearly, predominantly, in terms of hospitalizations, a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Saggar said. “Unlike the first wave in March, April and May of 2020, you feel this time that people made a choice, you know. It’s just — it’s frustrating.” Atlantic is responding to staffing shortages by redeploying resources, having some employees work additional shifts, enlisting the help of staffing agencies and “spending extra money in order to get the people we need to do the job,” he said.
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