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COVID-19 is again hitting nurses, flight crews and other frontline staff. "We don't have enough hands," one grocery worker says.

Would be the year that we put coronavirus behind us. here in london, life did get back to something closer to normal, but we also learned that covid is a global problem and it requires a global response. the successful roll—out of vaccines in the rich world left poorer countries vulnerable, and it gave the virus ample opportunity to mutate. science gave us the vaccine, but it didnt give us vaccine equity. when we made this plan of a fair allocation and equitable distribution, we knew therell b...

To work sooner. how serious is this issue of a potential shortage of health care workers? >> well, its acute and chronic. this is a problem here that we knew has long existed. 40% of nurses are due to leave the workforce by 2030. 30% of doctors. now you couple omicron, everybody getting exposed, some testing positive, this is a major problem for a system thats already stressed. so what the cdc did today was a great first step. youll see airlines, flight attendants, other places where theres key ...

>> its a battlefield. it is a battlefield. >> reporter: dr. jack lyons often thinks of the pandemics early days when grateful communities banged pots and pans to honor frontline workers. >> the vast majority of patients we take care of now come to our interactions with distrust. >> reporter: yeah, that feeling of goodwill is gone. >> long since dissipated. >> reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, st. cloud, minnesota. >> what reporting, ed lavandera. thank you to your team for that. let me bring in barba...

You will see airlines, flight attendants, other places where there are key staff, maybe not in the health care sector, also clambering for policy change. it is good for health care workers and other frontline workers. just like they did in the uk. so this will be more of the same across sectors. >> i want to talk to you about these antiviral pills. according to the new york times, in a clinical trial, mercks drug reduce the risk of hospitalization by death or death by 30% when given to high-risk...

There are calls to broaden it. they made the initial steps. there are other sectors, other frontline workers like flight aten dants. you mentioned the flight delays because of staffing shortages. i think the answer is yes. there is a paradigm here that was a bit surprising. it applied to any health care worker, not just those fully vaccinated. we know if youre otherwise without serious medical conditions like cancer and youre triple vaccinated, over phenomenon you have a positive test, lets say ...

Dining room 120 pounds cover this gingerbread replica of the mansion. this also brings close landmarks of community. a tribute to many different frontline workers. >> thats what i saw across this country. thats what gave me my inspiration for gifts from the heart. >> family is among the gifts from the heart. stockings for the biden grandchildren line the mantel under president lincoln. >> they had, nana, can we spend our first year at the white house? i said, of course. >> making the glittering ...

India on Thursday crossed the 140-crore COVID-19 vaccination doses milestone, informed Union MoS for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar on Thursday.

The numbers are overwhelmly positive. >> its heartbreaking for the frontline workers when they have a patient who says i wish i had been vaccinated. it wears them down to have patient after patient after patient like this with all that theyre going through. they have beared the brunt. senior adviser for covid response andy slavitt author of the book "preventable -- the inside story how leadership failures, politics and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." thanks very much for being...

They could tell us that while this variant of covid is very transmissble, its likely the least lethal covid variant that we will see. in fact, there has been one death linked to the omicron variant thus far. instead, they tell us were going to have a winter for unvaccinated people of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated, for their families. were going to overrun hospitals. theres absolutely nothing to back that up. but all they want to do is just scare tactics, its fear mongering. its a...