U.S. hospitals are seeing a rise in COVID-19-related admissions, and the older population is accounting for a growing percentage of national deaths.
Johns Hopkins Professor of Public Health Dr. Marty Makary joins 'Cavuto Live' to discuss the spike in COVID, Flu, and RSV, the impact it will have on hospitals, and the CDC recommending masks with the rise in COVID cases., and the older population accounts for a growing percentage of U.S. deaths.
Nursing home leaders are boosting efforts to have staff and residents boosted with the new version of the vaccine, which is now recommended by the federal government for people 6 months and older. The U.S. is seeing a rise in COVID-19-related hospitalizations, and the older population accounts for a growing percentage of U.S. deaths.
Many facilities try to protect their residents with masks, screening questions, temperature checks and enhanced infection control.
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