COVID-19 infections due to the omicron variant are slowing hospitalizations.html">nationwide. But some states are still seeing high rates of hospitalizations. 

Arizona is just one of the states feeling the effects of omicron right now. There, hospitalizations are up covid-cases.html">26 percent over the past two weeks, with a daily average of 3,428 people in hospitals. In Arizona and elsewhere, the omicron wave has overwhelmed hospitals and burned out healthcare workers that were already strained due to the delta variant. 

For more on this, The Takeaway spoke with one of the healthcare workers living through this surge. Frank LoVecchio is an emergency physician and public health doctor at University of Arizona and Arizona State University.