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Where are you on all of this? >> we are having deju-vu heading into the holiday season. we are seeing cases rise and hospitalizations and deaths as well. half of the cases last december heading into the holidays. the arise in hospitalizations and deaths are not paralleling that yet. a third of those. the information coming out about omicron is encouraging with a more milder illness and less hospitalization rates the united states is still battling the delta variant. while the sun-belt and other southern areas throughout summer had a bad delta wave, the northeast did not have a bad wave during ...

We have colder and drier air. because a lot of people are unvaccinated. that means tough decisions in codes across the united states. we are crisis standards of care. rationing of resources. we talked about it during the delta wave and we are going to be talking about in the weeks ahead. that is not going to be the case with the vaccinated. two things are going to be true. the vaccinated will largely be protected from omicron. they might get seeing breakthrough cases. those with not that. how do we understand this? many people who are unvaccinated say that they do not trust big pharma, they do...

Me. >> if the unvaccinated have to go to hospitals, what will this do to our hospitals that are already stressed? >> it's going to be problematic. there are 10,000 weekly deaths forecasted week after week into march. that coincides with flu season because of seasonality. a lot of people are still unvaccinated. for crisis standards of care, rationing of resources. we talked about it with the delta wave, we'll be talking about it in weeks ahead. that's not going to be the case for the unvaccinated. the vaccinated might get breakthrough cases, not a big deal. the unvaccinated will have a tough ti...

It's really hard to do justice. the scale of the burnout and the exhaustion that america's health care workers are facing right now. even if the delta wave and the omicron wave had never happened, they would be in a bad place. huge numbers of them have quit their jobs, quit medicine entirely because of all the traumas the last two years. now you add a delta wave on top of that and omicron on the horizon, as one person said to me, they're just grasping for resolve. and this is going to affect all of us, right. it's not just to do with covid anymore. as one person said, the level of care we have...

The moment to be prepared, to get ibuprofen, chicken soup, pedialyte, and a pulse ox to monitor yourself at home. >> would you be stockpiling test kits at home? >> i am stockpiling test kits. i've got about 12 sitting in my kitchen cabinet for get-togethers with my parents. my daughter is turning 13 and will have a small get-together, every kid will test before they enter the house. now is a time to go out and buy those rapid antigen tests. >> omicron is spreading super fast. do you expect that to overtake delta and actually get rid of delta? >> a great question. and i don't have a great answe...