not improve until the pandemic recedes, staffing levels return to normal and the global food distribution network is restored. lester all right, tom. let s turn our focus to covid now and some notion omicron variant causes less severe disease and shorter hospital stays. now, while the number of new cases remains high for the first time in almost a month, the seven-day average declined slightly deaths still mostly from the delta variant rising by 36% in the past week, and 82% of hospital icu beds are occupied that s a pandemic record kate snow got exclusive access to the country s largest medical icu at the cleveland clinic reporter: how does the situation right now compare to last year we have more patients our patients are sicker our teams are tired and exhausted, too. reporter: in a covid icu unit at the