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PHOENIX (AP) — The pandemic continues to strain hospitals statewide so Arizonans should...

Running at some level, so i think this was a balance between the science and the practicality of protecting our health care workers and keeping the country open. last week we heard about the requirement going down to seven days with additional testing. i support that, because if we lose too much of our health care workforce were not going to be able to take care of people in the icus and the hospital beds. thats the weak link in this whole epidemic. you know, there may be some quibbles here and ...

Calling on you this is the time you have the kids home from school. there is plenty of vaccination opportunities from your pediatrician to a site set up by the state of new york, our urgent care centers. >> reporter: new york city also implementing the strictest private sector vaccine mandate in the country while also adding even more testing like this site in times square. >> this is a priority. like dont eat the steak. never mind the chicken. go get covid tested or get the vaccine. >> reporter...

They dont know omicron for sure, but with coronavirus possibly or even likely omicron, although most of the cases are not very severe. >> so thats why there is this growing concern about hospitals getting overwhelmed with patients again. in illinois, advocate or health took out a full-page ad saying we cant stop covid without you. hospitals in ohio and minnesota made similar pleas. one e.r. doctor in michigan said the spread hasnt peaked in the midwest. >> as far as state numbers go omicron as t...

Overgrown surge, and theres a sense that this is what is going to follow in europe and the united states, and i wonder if theres anything out there that gives you hope? >> i hope so. i hope we follow south africas trend, but myself and others of us out there kind of are putting her ear to the ground, i dont know that i really trust south africas data right now, they are in the southern hemisphere, it is their summer right now, its wintertime here, and they have a really different population in t...

Immunity. what that means for me and my colleagues in the emergency departments and icus of the country means its going to suck in january. i will tell you that right now. >> okay, well, that wasnt exactly necessarily the thread of hope that i was wanting, but i do agree. i think we all need to hear it because were tired of hearing it and we have to be reminded of it, sometimes we need to be reminded of it to do the right thing, even if people have been doing the right thing all along. i do appr...

Albany Countys new case number decreases from Sunday, but hospitalizations increase by...

Holiday season. christmas now in the rear-view mirror. as covid cases spike and omicron spreads across the u.s. and around the world, what do you need to know to protect your family? our public health analyst and founding director of the national center for disaster repairedness is here now. doctor, glad to have you with us today. how worried are you about a post christmas surge with people travel, getting together with family and friends this week? how bad could this be? >> yeah. so actually th...

The vaxed and the unvaxed. and the difference between those groups is going to become increasingly stark. those people that die and go to icus are going to be unvaxed. so what could be a more clear message than that to people? >> yeah. i dont think there is one. doctor, thank you so much for that. and thanks for the words of advice for this new year. we appreciate it. >> sure. and we are still waiting on verdicts in two high profile faces this week. juries returning to deliberations in the ghi...

Medical examiner in minneapolis. doctor, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. how are you guys doing? what is happening in your icus right now? >> yeah. most days, were completely full. we are so full that often times, we are having to hold patients that are supposed to go to the icu in the emergency department for hours, sometimes days, and those are things that we havent been asked to do in the past. were being asked to take patients from rural hospitals that dont have the capacity to take...