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Johanne Castonguay says the focus should be on results and the value of care and services. Good call, bad ideas, because on the ground this will never happen.

There are currently 119 patients battling acute COVID-19 infections at the University of Kansas Health System. The previous high was 115 patients on December 10, 2020. On Monday, an additional 43 patients in the hospital were recovering from COVID-19 but were no longer classified as acute.

Pandemic with high rates of burnout and now its beyond anything weve recognized. we used to call it burnout and moral injury and exhaustion beyond what people can capture. it beyond to push through extra shifts and long hours and high volumes and what feels like not our best care or sometimes not even safe care but to do that day in and out and see people come in who are like it wasnt important enough for me to get vaccinated or suggest were pushing something on them for al motives. the suicide ...

>> sure. look, people are getting tired and fed up. i would commend him for declaring a mental health emergency among children. it has come a little too late. we should recognize the toll of these severe restrictions and people are recognizing a lot of things that were missed by public health officials. the cloth masks are barely or ineffective. that kids should have been in school the entire time. natural immunity is real. they are seeing through the political facade put on by the public health...

People that need hospitalization. so it will be good to have those health care workers back in the bedside. >> president biden was just asked about this move in the context of sort of everyone else, is he supportive of lessening the isolation period for other people that are fully vaccinated. if they get covid. listen to what the president said. >> do you think the isolation period for covid should be shortened for everyone? >> well, i just listen to my -- my team, the docs and they think we sho...

Infectious disease expert michael osterholm this morning saying that he thinks some health care workers should stay on the front lines, even if theyre infected. thats if theyre vaccinated and feel willing enough to be at a patients bedside. what do you think about this? >> i would say that we would have to evaluate that from a safety measure with our infection control group. you know, we want to definitely keep our patients all safe. we want to keep our immuno compromised patients safe as well a...

For healthcare workers. should that be revised? >> well, i think it is a very important consideration right now considering the next three to eight weeks are going to be the critical time with omicron in this country. thats when this viral blizzard will hit. thats when well be overrun. if we have talked about all the increase in cases this week, it is going to be substantially higher in the next few weeks. one thing were very concerned about is in healthcare systems already overstretched, breaki...

For vern holbrooks family, in an all night vigil at this trauma center in seattle. theyd gathered quickly at verns bedside after hearing hed been badly beaten. his throat slashed apparently, at a house he was showing to real estate clients. >> what were you told about his condition and his prognosis? >> they were worried about how much air he was getting to his brain. >> the vern that we all loved died that day. >> reporter: verns former daughter-in-law jill remembers hearing of the attack and h...

For his mothers murder is obvious. she was worth more dead than alive to his step-dad. >> let me hear your indictment for bill kyne for murder. kills your mother why? >> money. $750,000 could help him out a lot. >> reporter: detectives thought they had a plausible motive. now they combed through bills 911 call and his lengthy interview on the day of the murder. not everything seemed to add up. reporter curtis krueger noticed something curious reported by the first deputy at the scene. >> the fir...