NYC hospitals to get nearly $140 million funding boost during Omicron surge

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Big Apple hospitals will receive nearly $140 million in funding as they grapple with a surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations from the highly contagious Omicron variant, officials announced Wednesday. 

The city’s public hospital system, NYC Health + Hospitals, will receive an extra $111 million in support from City Hall and smaller, private safety-net hospitals will get $27 million in loans from Goldman Sachs. 

“Our hospitals are under some degree of strain right now, compounded by the staff outages because of COVID infections related to Omicron,” Dave Chokshi, the city’s Commissioner

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