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The school district told parents of the cancellation of classes early Monday and said in a Facebook post it was due to COVID-related issues with bus drivers.

Whats very different about omicron is, yes, it may not be making people as ill but it is causing massive worker shortages and thats having, you know, effectively shutting down large parts of the economy and thats going to affect everyone. >> reporter: thats absolutely right. that is a big concern right now. you know, youre not going to have enough bus drivers. youre not going to have garbage collectors. youre not going to have doctors and nurses. a lot of the european governments have had these ...

And i think going forward some things to keep watch here are that we expect that what is interesting right now, we normally see seasonal employees laid off. folks who were hired to work in warehouses or retail stores. we are not seeing that right now. those why those jobless daims claims are very low. companies want to hold onto the workers they have. the one thing that does worry me a little bit is we are really struggling to get back and rebound in hiring in schools particularly for things lik...

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And right now it tends to be ten days, and they hope to get them back, but here again, heres another logistical nightmare. there are so many children in school, and so many children to track in terms of when theyre infected, how long theyve been home, when they come back to school. its a major logistic issue for districts. particularly the larger schools. the high school with thousands of students and middle schoolers. even a small elementary school will have hundreds of students. after that the...

Staff are sick themselves, theres no one there to watch the kids. and that unfortunately does lead to school closures even when schools are trying to do the right thing and stay in person. >> dan, how are schools handling those staff shortages? what are you doing when you do want to bring the kids back but you simply dont have enough people to teach them, watch them, look out for them? >> exactly. and whats happening right now is that a lot of teachers, their classes are being doubled up. they h...

Projection, a tidal wave? >> well, i dont know if its going to be a tidal wave but certainly a lot of pediatric hospitalizations. more than weve ever seen. and its not because the virus is selectively targeting kids. what weve seen in south africa and the uk is when you have this firestorm or what my friend mike osterholme calls virus blizzard. there will be pediatric hospitalizations. and the other tough piece, keeping the schools open because of this high transmissible. you start seeing absenc...

Weeks. so the bottom line is to try to be patient. try and to be overambitious over the next few weeks. we will get through it but its going to be tough sledding now for the next month or so. >> yeah, and the cdc facing criticism for their new guidance but that did factor into it. the collapse of society because so many essential people would have to be out of work given how infectious this is. and i think another big question is whats coming up after the new year holiday is that a lot of studen...

25% said severe. 15% said very severe. add it all up, thats 77% of those surveyed saying staffing shortages were having notable impacts on the school. its nearly eight in ten schools that dont have enough people to serve the students, so where is the problem being felt the most? well, its across the board. whats most acute, and you hear this anecdotally and see it in the survey, substitute teachers, struggling to find them, 77%. bus drivers, this has been a huge issue. even one state called out ...

Stuff is really trucking. were losing about 80,000 truckers a year, in this country. people have looked at it as a job that is not long term, when the factor is you can raise a family. some of the covid concerns are warehouses around the world that have shut down due to covid-19. were behind on semiconductors, batteries, and other supplies, i think we cant lose sight of the fact that were still living in a pandemic for. i think a lot of those factories are open now, we still have ships off the c...