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The news is good and bad — and head-scratching. COVID-19 cases in intensive care units statewide averaged two per day last week, a new low. But patients who meanwhile had to delay treatments for other ailments are now sicker, and the hospitals are as full as ever.
This is a real problem in hospital staffing — traveler nurses are still in demand here. That’s clear.
What isn’t so obvious: How should we view the pandemic now? Is it now officially endemic, less of a worry? Nobody really knows… yet.