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Different. during delta and earlier phases, we ran out of icu beds before we ran out of hospital beds and space in the emergency department. because omicron tends to cause a lot of hospitalizations, but somewhat fewer percentage of those patients end up in the icu. the real strain right now is in emergency rooms and hospital beds and staffed hospital beds with nurses to take care of them. were running a little over 93% of our icu capacity in theory, but a bed is just a bed if you dont have the s...

>> garrett, what are you watching for and listening for when the debate starts in the noon hour? >> reporter: im interested to see if we hear any more on the rules change, either the democratic side putting pressure on their colleagues, or whether this is drawing a line in the sand. right now, hospitals all over this country are facing staff shortages. and an intensifying challenge because of omicron. what if there was a way to put many doctors and nurses in icus with the push of a button? we ...

Weekend to stop election active surgeries because of the critical staffing and bed shortages in hospitals across my state in new york, and were seeing the same thing in other states across the country right now. oregon as well reported they have only 42 hospital beds in their icus, and they put out guidelines should that need arise. so were seeing it here in new york certainly and now were seeing it across the state and other states as well. >> it isnt so much that people are as sick as they wer...

Younger than 5 and cant be vaccinated. and about 85% of all people who are hospitalized in utah are unvaccinated. if you go to the icu, its an even higher percentage. if you look at deaths, its somewhere around 90%. people are getting sick with omicron despite vaccination, but theyre not getting very sick. the people who are requiring hospitalization, who are ending up in the icu are either those who havent been vaccinated or those for whom the vaccine hasnt been able to work because of their un...

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...

In a month or two. its going to take years to develop in an incremental fashion. >> reporter: despite mounting evidence omicron is less severe, the unprecedented surge in infections pushing the daily death toll to its highest point in nearly a year. >> milder does not mean mild, and we cannot look past the strain on our health systems and substantial number of deaths. >> reporter: and so many hospitals are running out of room. >> this empty bed is now the only empty bed in the hospital and its a...

Masks, telling americans that loosely woven cloth masks provide less protection than n-95 and kn-95s. but tonight, the warning on how many of those could be fake. heres phil lipof in new york. >> reporter: tonight, covid cases surging to record highs. the u.s. reporting more than 5.5 million new infections in just one week. hospitals across the country feeling the strain. >> not only are you physically exhausted, youre mentally exhausted and sometimes your heart hurts. >> reporter: in 40 states,...

Patients dont stop coming and phone doesnt stop ringing and theres so little of us. and i am so overwhelmed. >> reporter: so, again, thats what some health care workers are feeling out here in the west right now. and thats as we continue seeing those hospitalizations out here in california going up. jose? >> dr. gupta, how does this reflect on what youre hearing from your colleagues and your own personal experience. >> jose, good morning. thank you for highlighting this. we are worried in health...

From the virus and continue to do that every day, man our ers and icus every day and for the first year of this pandemic, they did that without any protection of a vaccine. thats the sacrifice they made. and all that weve done is asked the public to wear a mask when you go out and about, and get vaccinated. so im glad shes done with it. but i sort of feel like this country has been in a boat that has filled with water and some of us have been trying to bail out -- bail the water out of this boat...

>> i think theres a link there where i think that argument falls flat or deflates, jim, is that any content a rapper is putting out or even strongly held extremist political views dont -- shouldnt be conflated with junk science thats spread and results in our icus being overrun. so, i do think americans and the courts correctly afford special protections or fidelity to medical information or the spread of junk science, as were seeing with joe rogan. i would argue, look, if you can reverse some o...