{"id":18590,"date":"2021-12-10T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/12\/10\/national-guard-helping-virus-sapped-states-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:12:28","slug":"national-guard-helping-virus-sapped-states-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/12\/10\/national-guard-helping-virus-sapped-states-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard helping virus-sapped states, hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More U.S. states desperate to defend against COVID-19 are calling on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/12\/02\/3rd-military-medical-team-sent-to-michigan-amid-covid-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\">the National Guard and other military personnel<\/a> to assist virus-weary medical staffs at hospitals and other care centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People who became sick after refusing to get vaccinated are overwhelming hospitals in certain states, especially in the Northeast and the Upper Midwest. New York, meanwhile, announced a statewide&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-mask-mandate-coronavirus-cfe8fb80401bb0fe66f3260bf5f51dda\">indoor mask order<\/a>, effective Monday and lasting five weeks through the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re entering a time of uncertainty, and we could either plateau here or our cases could get out of control,\u201d Gov. Kathy Hochul warned Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Michigan, health director Elizabeth Hertel was equally blunt: \u201cI want to be absolutely clear: You are risking serious illness, hospitalization and even death\u201d without a vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the U.S. rose over the past two weeks to 117,677 by Thursday, compared to 84,756 on Nov. 25, Thanksgiving Day, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has soared to about 54,000 on average, according&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#hospitalizations\">to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the country is approaching a new milestone of 800,000 COVID-19 deaths. More than 200 million Americans, or about 60% of the population, are now fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Maine, which hit a pandemic high this week with nearly 400 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, as many as 75 members of the National Guard were being summoned to try to keep people out of critical care with monoclonal antibodies and to perform other non-clinical tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maine has one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/covid19\/vaccines\/dashboard\">highest COVID-19 vaccination rates&nbsp;<\/a>in the country \u2014 73% \u2014 but that rate lags in many of the state\u2019s rural pockets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York National Guard said it had deployed 120 Army medics and Air Force medical technicians to 12 nursing homes and long-term care facilities to relieve fatigued staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Paolo Marciano, chief medical officer at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan, said it was a \u201ctremendous lifeline\u201d to get assistance from the Defense Department, which has more than 60 nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists assigned to the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt allowed us to be able to care for the COVID patients and at the same time still maintain the level of care that cancer patients require or people with chronic illnesses,\u201d Marciano said. \u201cWhere we are today is really just keeping our heads above water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York\u2019s mask order covers all indoor public places unless a business or venue has a vaccine requirement. The state reported more than 68,000 positive tests for the virus in a seven-day period that ended Wednesday, the most for any seven-day stretch since February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City and several upstate New York counties already have mask mandates. Critics, however, said the governor\u2019s announcement was another burden for businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGovernment overreach at its worst,\u201d said Republican Assemblyman Mike Lawler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michigan is sending more ventilators to hospitals and asking for even more from the national stockpile. Infection rates and hospitalizations are at record levels, 21 months into the pandemic. 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