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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 engineer some of steve bannons comments to injury from an insurrection, thats one thing. and that obviously the courts would ha...

So more testing, good news, not such good news is hospitalizations. surging to higher levels than the previous peak which was this time last year. in oklahoma alone where omicrons peak could still be weeks away, nearly a quarter of the hospitals have already reported critical staffing shortages. one of the doctors sounding the alarm in that state, dr. dale bratzler. thank you so much for being with us, doctor. we know omicron is less likely to make patients severely ill, but icus are having trou...

Young people just skyrocket. there is, for example, 61 children under the age of 9 in i.c.u.s across the country. thats four times the number just a month ago. and theyve started vaccinating children as young as five here, including just four young people here in paris because theyre really worried about the omicron spread among the young, isa. >> jim bittermann for us in paris. and kristie lu stout in hong kong, thank you very much. now, parts of colorado still reeling from a massive blaze la...

The hospital but sick enough to keep them at home, and so weve learned over these last two years, when mortality really skyrockets is when icus and ers get overwhelmed and thats the risk here. weve got this one-two combination that could make this omicron wave as bad as any other, even if the overall severity and lethality of the omicron variant is less, youve got that one-two punch combined with knocking out the whole healthcare workforce, not to mention all of the social disruptions were alrea...

Some still from delta who have been in the hospital for from for a prolonged period of time. the point is there is something called uncoupling. people have said israel has 80,000 new cases yesterday. yes, but 20 deaths in israel. ireland the same thing. denmark the same thing. united kingdom the same thing. and new york city by the way, the same thing. my hospitals are not having people filling the icus because there is a high vaccination rate here in new york. >> steve: meanwhile, here is anoth...

Well, tonight, a covid vaccine reversal from starbucks. the coffee giant wont require its 350,000 workers to be vaccinated after a supreme court ruling said large businesses dont need to. it is a contentious issue, especially in places where covid cases are skyrocketing. cbs carter evans reports from missouri, a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. >> can you open your eyes for me? >> reporter: at st. lukes hospital in kansas, dr. andrew schlachter has been on the covid...

>> news updates are always on kpix.com. see you in 30 minutes. captioning sponsored by cbs >> tracy: tonight, hospitals overwhelmed by the unprecedented covid surge. i.c.u.s packed in some states as deaths rise nationwide, even as new infe infections in some regioning start to fall. >> reporter: im lilia luciano in l.a. county, which leads california in new infections, and hospitalizations are climbing. >> tracy: also tonight, the u.s. sends lethal aid to ukraine as tensions with moscow rise. >>...

Hospitals to have around 75 or 80% capacity in their icus, combined with overall hospitalization rates, combined with levels of covid in the community, and of course, local vaccination rates make a difference. we know over and over again, i feel i cant say it enough, if you are vaccinated and boosted, if other people in your community are vaccinated and boosted, you are going to be in a much better place. we are going to be able to unmask safely indoors, much more quickly. >> so, so critical ind...

Mild diseases. i completely agree with dr. jha, what you care about is hospitalizations and icus and deaths. we still have a lot of cases and still have a fair amount of icu admissions. we are on the cusp of that changing. the biden administration is right on trying to determine how we are going to be assessing when we move from a pandemic to an endemic. >> cases of hospitalizations clearly going down. de d deaths about 2300 a day which is way too many. governors are pushing on how to lift restr...

Yet, but it is being framed in a pretty odd way. german health officials as you mention saying that the number of new infections are actually lower. covid passes for bars and for restaurants, but while they say -- the german health menster says that omicron is under control, new infections are reaching record highs. they hit a new record on thursday, and theyre also warning of pressure on hospitals and icus. what they have not seen is a spike in new deaths, but that may come later. the german he...