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Early days when chicken wings were coming on big when i was in college. they used to throw those things out. and, now, of course, they became the primary focus. and now youre looking agent the rest of the chicken, maybe back to where we were then. what are your cus customers saying? >> first of all, youre right, neil. we used to go to 10 cent wing night when i was in college, so if you find 10 cent wing night, give me a call. ill meet you there. [laughter] neil: these wings, the thighs and all, ...

General. and 2.5 times higher for latino males than for the population in general. erica? >> sobering. thats for sure. elizabeth, appreciate it, thank you. >> want to bring in d dr. rashina burkain from houston. thank you so much for being with us. we talked to your colleague peter hotez all the time and he says it looks like houston is going to be the tip of the omicron spear in texas. what are you seeing in texas right now in terms of cases in omicron? >> well, what were seeing in texas is mir...

Months. it seems a little bit early in the pandemic as cases are spiking to be able to look at the early data, to be able to really forecast what is going to happen. im really pleased to be on tonight because those of us who work in emergency medicine and in the icus and have been on the front line, really dealing with overwhelming capacity of patients seeking care as well as critical nursing shortages, are really, really concerned about what is coming. i worked today and had a shift, and we had...

New cases per day, but covid hospitalizations are at a level not seen since september back when delta was dominant. icus are once again flooded. three-quarters full nationwide, covid patients accounting for more than 25% of those in the icu and perhaps most alarming of all the hospitalizations among children are higher than ever before. the vast majority of the nations schools are press ahead with in-person classes and if all of this has your head spinning wondering again what youre supposed to ...

That very notion, its a new form of a trojan horse that i think well be exploring for many years to come. as you also mentioned, january would have been enough to cover very historic occasions and write volumes in textbooks for years to come but then you also have the pandemic and as you said, people thought if 2020 was the worst year that 2021 would be the end of the pandemic. youve got vaccines available throughout the year. did you think we would be where we are right now ending the year with...

>> this is a common time of year for children to be admitted in the hospital. and some of the things were seeing in the trends theyre not heading to the icu more often that we can tell. many of them are actually coming in for another reason, that they happen to be tested when they come incidentally to have covid. and third and most importantly, most of those children are not yet vaccinated. >> dr. hoyen, does that track with what youre seeing? >> yeah, i think in northeast ohio, were a little bi...

Hospital being extremely. if you our icus are at 150% capacity across all of west michigan and know the state is seeing similar numbers, and its just the fact that also its the covid-19 who are also unvaccinate that had are filling up the spaces. i believe its about 95% of the people in icu with covid run vaccinated people and covid patients stay in the hospital for an extremely long period of time so each if were seeing numbers going down. our test positive rate is just below 20%, still extreme...

Health officials are watching a sharp rise in covid-19 infection and hopping. south korea is seeing a record number of covid-19 patients. more than 1100 in icus, 77% of all icu beds in that country. in europe, several countries, including italy, announce record breaking numbers of daily covid-19 cases. john allen explains pope francis reflected on the impact of the pandemic. >> it was a clearly somber and hopeful pope francis who celebrated christmas today in the vatican it is usually a

The community. in orange county, we have a crisis in our hospitals and icus as reported in "the new york times" its taking time to get people transported to the hospitals. we have nine hospitals that had to bring on extra wards, emergency wards, to deal with the onslaught of covid. this is a consequence of the sorts of policies that kelly ernby championed during her life. do you want to forget about it, do you want to ignore it? i dont think so. >> michael, a quick comment, when i hear of someon...

Who test positive. as you know, there is a real testing bottleneck. so we need to solve that problem first. >> reporter: omicron is now confirmed in all 50 states, but there is good news. three early studies now adding to the evidence it may be less likely to cause severe disease. still, experts warn its too early to say for sure. >> its dangerous business to be able to rely on what you perceive as a lower degree of severity. >> reporter: doctors fear even if omicron is milder than delta, the hu...