DANGEROUS SITUATION: New York City faces shortage of EMS crews on Christmas as omicron wave sickens city

DAILY NEWS: Roughly 19% of the city’s more than 4,000 EMS workers were out sick Saturday, Christmas day, up from the typical rate of about 5%

The shortage — caused in part by crews isolating with COVID-19 cases — comes as the city’s daily number of cases continued a record-breaking streak.

New York state figures show there were more than 27,000 confirmed cases of the virus in the city in the 24-hour period ending Friday morning, and a positivity rate of more than 10%. City hospitalization rates, however, remain lower than previous pandemic peaks.

But Anthony Alomojera, vice president of Local 3621 — the FDNY’s EMS officers union — pointed out there’s still been a rush of unvaccinated New Yorkers with COVID-19 who need ambulances.

“Christmas day is usually not that busy,” said Alomojera. “This isn’t people falling down and breaking their legs. It’s COVID related.”

The FDNY over the holiday got about 4,500 ambulance calls per day

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