Don't let your guard down, experts warn.
. But both Fauci and doctors on the front lines are warning against letting this news cause complacency, as hospitals around the country are still filling up with COVID patients., MD, an emergency room doctor working in New York City and the director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at Columbia Medicine, wrote a Jan. 10 op-ed for.
It's not all bad news, especially compared to the start of the pandemic. In March 2020, intensive care units were regularly overfilled and health care workers were overwhelmed with patients who needed supplemental oxygen and ventilators. According to Spencer, he hasn't had to put any patients on a ventilator so far during this recent Omicron wave, nor have most patients needed supplemental oxygen.