President Biden is set to announce Thursday that his administration will deploy additional federal medical teams to six states to help hospitals deal with heightened capacity amid the surge of the omicron coronavirus variant in the U.S.
A White House spokesman said that the teams will be sent to New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico. The new deployments were first reported by USA Today.
Biden is slated to deliver remarks on his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the White House Thursday morning alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell.
More than 800 federal emergency personnel have already been deployed to 24 states, tribes and territories since the Thanksgiving holiday to assist local personnel, according to the White House, and over 14,000 National Guard members have been activated in nearly every state.
In Arizona, for example, the administration dispatched 20 FEMA paramedics and 40 other federal medical personnel around Christmas to provide support to hospitals in the state.
White House spokesman Kevin Munoz said that Biden will speak with federal support teams already positioned in Arizona, New York and Michigan “to hear about the impact our servicemembers are having on the COVID-19 response.”
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