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Are at record levels, but its not. if you look to the left, hospitalizations are not tracking cases as much as they did during the first wave or the delta wave. now we look at deaths and you see a similar thing in the sense that the cases go way up, but the red line is the deaths -- i want to make sure im clear about what were talking about. there. there you see the coronavirus deaths. you have the same situation where in the past the first wave and the delta wave, death waves were tracking. so ...

Im going to do. im not going to allow the hysteria to prevent the future of my children seeking a quality education and the development a sociologists are stating they need. >> doctor, in new york state the governor has ordered 40 hospitals to stop all nonurgent elective surgery for at least two weeks. theyre basically rationing medical care amid this latest surge. what are you seeing at your hospital right now? are you having to turn any people away or limit who gets care based on what youre se...

Following that same trajectory, right? so what does that tell you about the vargeniant and the vaccinat rates? >> right. essentially what used to happen is cases and hospitalizations would go on a parallel track. cases would be much higher but hospitalizations would follow the same curve. in the delta in highly vaccinate places the cases would go up and hospitalizations would stay manageable. why? because we had immunity. and now with omicron two things are happening. one is that we have higher ...

Do that is to reserve vaccinations for the most vulnerable. what do you think -- and they said who -- we can pull that second part up. i do want to have him look at that to make sure that he is responding to the right part. who are already highly vaccinated while flooding our communities with cheap states and evidence if i cassius prescribed in early treatment by personal physicians. is that the right strategy? should we swish to that herd immunity and putting more emphasis on early treatment? >...

Tired of it all. its difficult not only to manage the number of coronavirus cases, but everything else that everyone has been suffering that they have to deal with on a day-to-day basis, they are battling not only the virus, but false information as well, and also trying to balance work and life. >> with the increased number of covid patients that we see at times, it decreases any kind of capacity we have. we have difficulty transferring patients to other facilities that are experiencing the sam...

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Healthcare system. people are getting burnt out. the difficulty we are having now and the devastating wave in new york to the brink of collapse, we are able to shift personnel around the country, right now we cant do that. every part of the country is requiring extreme level of healthcare staffing. you cant take healthcare workers in the southwest and move them into the northeast because there is epidemic spread within the southwest right now. you were not able to move around that mobile force o...

Chain but also part of it is the administration was caught flat-footed, not realizing how quickly the demand would return as we are on the back slope of the delta wave. >> yeah. these are not unanticipated consequences. anyone who understands the way the economy works knows when you tinker with it at the very fundamental levels, which is what they have done, in my industry in energy from their very first day in office, they have put in multiple efforts and regulations and rules to curtail the pr...

Awareness of it. a lot of people didnt even know this was even something that was available and so we were able to do tens of thousands of people out of the hospital and no doubt save thousands of lives. this was during the summer when the south had the delta wave, what i would have done in other states is had these sites ready for when the winter wave hit in the northern states because we know that this virus moves in a seasonal and regional pattern. >> governor, toipght applaud you my wife wen...

Governor is trying to put up a strong front, but the disease is affecting him. there is a small glimmer of light at the end of this omicron tunnel. the average number of cases looks like it may be starting to plateau, holding steady for the first time in about a month. but the number of americans dying of covid still creeping up now. its almost 1700 each day. but the cdc director thinks those deaths may not be primarily from omicron. >> i believe right now that those deaths are still the laggi...