Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Mayor, Council, school boards + more: Read WVXU's guide to 2025's local election >>

Boston hospital confronts surge in COVID-19 patients

Hospitalizations of patients infected with COVID-19 across the country reached a record high this week.

Dr. Christian Arbelaez, chief of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, tells us how the staff is coping with the surge, driven by the omicron variant.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.