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>> how is that affecting front line workers that you're working with. >> i mean, health care is decimated now. there's really no better way to describe it. we are near our max patients of 132,000 from last year because of our staff leaving, exhausted. we cannot provide that same quality of care to 130,000 patients now that we did last year. it's devastating. it's important the try to do whatever we can to try to mitigate this spike. >> you said decimated. that's pretty powerful. health officials have been warning too that next few weeks will get worse. is the only way to get through this the i...

Release more and more viruses, we have to think about this i think in a different way. we often did think about this as a hurricane is coming, shelter in place, see what happens, assess the damage afterwards. we don't have to be so reactionary, i think, and we have been reactionary for a long time. there were steps, you know, in the early 2000s towards the pandemic preparedness plan, after the 1918 flu. as time goes on, if we don't deal with this acutely, people's attention spans and memories are short. hopefully, some of these plans, which i read those papers, they will set us up better for t...

Will set us up better for the future. right now we are in the middle of a crisis. 132,000 people in the hospital. we are almost at january 2021 peaks. these plans are for the future. right now we got to deal with the acute crisis. >> we are averaging 615,000 new cases a day, more than 1,400 deaths a day. 125,000 people hospitalized. explain the strain it's putting on the health care systems and hospitals right now. >> well, it's very difficult to put this really in human terms in the sense of understanding what it's like to be in a hospital where you are begging health care workers who have ju...

Covid hospitalizations, again, soaring to record highs, more than 132,000 patients are hospitalized with covid in the u.s. right now. that is up 83% in the past two weeks, and cases including breakthrough infections continue to break records every single day. the situation is so dire among hospital workers that covid-infected staff in california can now stay on the job as long as they aren't showing symptoms. but six former top health advisors to president biden are saying that his administration must prepare a way forward that doesn't focus on these numbers alone and instead focuses on -- or ...

Short up 80000 drivers to clear out the containers already here quickly enough. that's one of the reasons we are currently 132,000 vessels anchored off the coast waiting to unload containers full of goods. it's one trickle-down effect. earlier today we spoke to the manager of a trucking company, she actually has the manpower to move cargo however, logistical issues at the port like shortage of port workers are further complicating an already messy situation and prompted this. >> cut in half. with the drivers i have, is cut in half, i can't pay them like i would want to drivers are going other ...