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Is it displacing it? too early to say. in south africa they had already been through their delta wave, so it became dominant but didn't push out delta. we don't know yet what will happen in the u.s. >> last year we sort of escaped a tough flu season. so we have flu, delta, and we don't know if omicron is going to cause hospitalizations. but you were talking about the health care worker issue. do you expect emergency rooms basically not to be available if you have non-covid-related, non-life-threatening emergencies? >> chuck, my own hospital system has already shut down any nonemergent surgerie...

And the cdc is projecting that virus deaths will increase over the next four weeks. however, the number of fully vaccinated americans surpassed 200 million earlier this month, just over 60% of the population. in the past week, the doses being administered jumped 35% from the week before. but there are still millions who have not received a single dose, and many insist they are not going to. >> jacqueline howard with the latest on that we are seeing. >> john, health officials say they're concerned about what we could see this winter. they're concerned about a trio of illness. so we already have...

Is that where we're headed? >> you know, don, our health care systems are already overwhelmed. my own hospital system today delayed or canceled almost all elective surgeries requiring an overnight stay and many of the day surgeries as well are being canceled. those are things like gallbladders, joint surgeries, things people have been waiting for for months. we are in the midst of a delta wave here in rhode island right now, not yet an omicron wave. so absolutely things are going to get worse before they get better at health systems around the country. and i will say as an e.r. doc this is the...

Is on the wall, you see covid hospitalizations up 43% just from a month ago, according to the hhs, an alarming one in six hospitals already reporting critical staffing shortages, even if omicron cases cause less severe illness, i mean, could it still end up overwhelming our health care systems, is that where we're headed? >> you know, don, our health care systems are already overwhelmed. my own hospital system today delayed or cancelled almost all l elective surgeries requiring an overnight stay and many of the day surgeries as well are being cancelled, things like gallbladders, joint surgerie...

The pandemic?earlier i spokeh wit melissa nolan, assistant professor of epidemiology at the university of south carolina. wonderful to have you on the program. i imagine, many in the audience are wondering the same thing as i am, we've been through the delta wave, that we all asking ourselves. when we think about delta in comparison where we were at that point, we had a significantly larger on vaccinated population for the suit omicron is going to take a whole we don't think it's good to be at the same level. we do anticipate this for the northern hemisphere in general. when we start to see re...