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Im christi paul. >> im boris sanchez. >> theres drama to tell you about inside the biden administration. >> the next month could be brutal. the latest cdc forecast predicted more than 84,000 americans could die from covid over the next four weeks. hospitals already on the brink as icus are over run with unvaccinated patients. >> despite the surge, some state officials are pushing to reopen schools. the georgia governor has announce and he is loosening covid protocols to get public school teacher...

Pig to human heart transplant. and dramatic body cam. officers pulling a pilot out of a crashed plane seconds before its hit by a train. this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. good evening the numbers remain staggering tonight, stretching our patience and our capacity to fix all that covid has broken. from the millions forced to isolate at home to the emergency rooms and icus desperately short on staff but filled with the sick, including the very young weve learned that over the last...

Pandemic, more than 155,000, that means icus are quickly filling up. more than a dozen states now reporting less than 15% remaining capacity. and joining us now is the president of the american medical association, dr. gerald harmon. dr. harmon, thank you for being with us. we appreciate you coming on. we just showed everyone the stats on this. we know covid cases are skyrocketing, we know hospitals are getting overwhelmed by the number of infected patients. did you think we would be in this pos...

Have vacation days or sick days. when they dont go to work, they dont get paid. so this idea that, oh, were just going to play it safe and go virtual, many are saying we need to do more of a risk adjustment here because that impacts all of these families. its not like when schools go virtual you just pop a computer on and you have the same school day. it has a massive impact. then you turn and look at other things, the state of california is now saying their hospital workers, if they test positi...

Through their private insurance. that is if theyre available from pharmacies retailers or online vendors. all part of biden administrations effort to increase access to testing around the u.s. free test kits will also be available to order starting wednesday from covidtest.gov. this is in the wake of the omicron variant crippling the work force, particularly medical staffing. on friday fema announced expanding flexibility for national guard members to support hospitals and is deploying teams to ...

They are available. all part of the biden administrations effort to increase access to testing around the u.s. free test kits will also be available for people to order starring wednesday from covidtests.com. this comes in the wake of the spread of the omicron variant, crippling the work force, particularly medical staffing. on friday fema announced expanding flexibility for national guard members to support hospitals and is deploying teams to ohio, michigan, rhode island, new jersey, new york a...

Worker in that room working to take care and treat this patient. on this end, you have another health care worker able to offer guidance, answer questions if needed. this entire system, the virtual icu here, this is something they plan to implement well before the pandemic, but once covid reared its head, this became even more vital. listen. >> the number of patients going up to almost 200 in our icus, in our intermediate care units, patients waiting in the emergency room for icu care and to exp...

Tom. you are called dr. tom by the staff there because i know that youre back at the hospital after a seven-month furlough due to this pandemic and the medical teams were cheering for you when you came back. i know you have a particular concern for the medical staff, particularly the nurses there. again, dont want to compromise confidentiality you have with your teams but we know the fatigue, emotional well being of frontline workers is real, its something a lot of people are concerned about. wh...

That was true even in the fall before omicron. and talking to the doctors that i know interact with, that is being exasperated by doctors catching omicron and having to quarantine. and its stressing -- stretching staffing levels very thin. >> yes, even though the number of patients and icus are about the same as they were a year ago. overall, our hospitals are much more crowded. both because we are taking care of all of the other problems that exist out there in the world. and all that we put of...

Best time with to many people in need of their local pharmacy. thats a discussion for another day. with this surge in breakthrough cases from omicron, what do you say to the people who say the booster isnt necessary because were all going to have this strain at some point. lets just get it over with. >> the icus are getting filled with patient who is are unvaxed and get very sick from omicron. an entire floor of covid patients was killed. most of them were unvaxed. there were some breakthrough c...