NEW NORMAL: The latest on COVID-19, cancer and heart disease
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12's Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by Dr. Ankita Sager, primary care physician and system vice
president for clinical standards and variation reduction at Common
Spirit Health, for the latest health headlines on COVID-19, cancer and heart disease.
As the
United States enters its third full COVID-19 winter, a top administration
official is warning that the permanence of the coronavirus in the disease
landscape could mean brutal and long-lasting seasonal surges of cold-weather
illnesses for years to come.
This could result in hospitals struggling
to care for non-COVID-19 emergencies and unable to give patients timely,
lifesaving treatments.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish
Jha said the American health care system may not be able to withstand
the continued viral onslaught, straining the system's ability to care for other
serious illnesses
COVID-19 is the third-leading cause of
death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer, according to
preliminary data released from Johns Hopkins University.
That
is despite early data suggesting there were significantly fewer COVID-19 deaths
in 2022 than there were in the first two years of the pandemic.
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