Three local hospitals shared what’s different during the omicron surge.
As the omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to surge, hospitals across the state have seen a significant increase in patients. While the vast majority of people who are vaccinated and boosted avoid serious illness, the virus is continuing to sicken the unvaccinated and those with compromised immune systems. Statewide, hospitalizations have reached the same levels as during the earlier delta wave.
At Stanford Health Care, about a quarter of patients hospitalized there are admitted with COVID rather than for it, although some of them have underlying conditions that put them at higher risk for illness from COVID. In the past, hospitals did not distinguish between patients coming in “with” or “for COVID” because the vast majority of COVID patients arrived sick from the virus.UCSF had 55 COVID patients hospitalized Wednesday, with nine requiring critical care. It was not immediately clear how many had omicron, with the earlier delta variant also continuing to spread.
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