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HARRISBURG (AP) -- Pennsylvania hospitals overwhelmed with the latest COVID-19 surge will get help from federal teams as Gov. Tom Wolf's administration finalizes the details, Wolf's office said Tuesday.
Wolf's administration did not give details about how many people will be in the federal "strike teams," what sort of expertise or equipment they will bring with them and when they could feasibly arrive at hospitals in Pennsylvania.
In a statement, Wolf's acting secretary of health, Keara Klinepeter, said Wolf's administration is working to determine which hospitals will receive help and what sort of resources they will get.
Wolf's administration said it asked the federal government for help on Dec. 15, seeking health care workers to help at hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and ambulance companies in the hardest-hit areas of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania also asked FEMA for 1 million rapid at-home coronavirus tests and for an increase in the state's allocation of monoclonal antibody treatments.