The Omicron variant is causing record-breaking COVID-19 cases in New Jersey and state modeling shows hospitalizations could soon follow.
New Jersey is seeing its highest spike in COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began and one of the state's largest hospitals is warning that hospitalizations could follow the same record-breaking pattern.
Based on models from the health commissioner and governor, Dr. Daniel Varga, the chief physician executive of Hackensack Meriden Health, one of the state's largest hospital systems, told WNBC hospitalizations in mid-January could exceed records New Jersey set in March and April 2020. A New Jersey doctor believes hospitalizations from COVID could exceed those seen at the start of the pandemic, according to modeling from the state. A healthcare worker exists from to the emergency room at Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey, on December 11, 2020.
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