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Health care workers frustrated, exhausted amid latest COVID surge
ARIELLE MITROPOULOS
Wed, December 22, 2021, 4:00 AM·5 min read
With the presence of omicron rapidly increasing across the country, federal health officials are warning the surge in coronavirus cases expected in the weeks to come could significantly increase hospital demand.
As more than 7,800 Americans are admitted into hospitals with the virus each day, from Michigan to New Hampshire, health care workers are once again finding themselves overwhelmed with the number of patients in need of care – not only for COVID-19, but for other illnesses and winter-related ailments.
"We are burnt out, we are tired and we are disheartened. So much of what we see on a daily basis is preventable," Sarah Rauner, chief nurse practitioner at Beaumont Health in Troy, Michigan, told ABC News. "We are still living this every day."
In Wisconsin, just 4% of intensive care unit beds are currently available.
Sue Wolfe, a nurse at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, told ABC News that in her 38-year tenure as a nurse at the hospital, she has never seen anything like this surge.
"This place is so busy, so packed. … We have patients coming in all the time, waiting in the waiting room, waiting in the hallways, waiting on carts, waiting to go upstairs," Wolfe said. "We also have a waiting room that's packed full of people that are coming in more and more each day with COVID."
Across the country, nearly 70,000 patients are currently hospitalized with the virus.
"We are going to see a significant stress in some regions of the country on the hospital system, particularly in those areas where you have a low level of vaccination," Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the White House, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
Most of the patients infected with COVID at UW Health are unvaccinated, leaving Wolfe frustrated and exhausted.
"I find it frustrating. I get angry," Wolfe said. "I wonder why they did this, why they're doing this to me. Why are they doing this to all the people that need to be away from sick people in the waiting room? I'm frustrated because I can't get them out of the frickin' waiting room."