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Hospitals are already teetering from delta cases that still remain in the icu, from noncovid cases and volumes that have filled up our e.r.s and hospitals, and from the fact that just like the airline industry and the police and fire folks, health care workers are exposed every day and are getting infected and are being sidelined by covid as well. so we're having a hard time making sure that we have enough people to show up to shifts, making sure that there is enough people to provide the high quality care in addition to the increase of patients we're seeing from omicron already. >> well, dr. ...

E.r.s around the country are filled. this will be a major finish in january and february and it speaks to the sheer velocity. it is really making it way possible until speeds that we have not seen before. >> i'm curious what on the ground medical workers think about the updated cdc guidance last week when the rules were loosened for medical workers. they added isolation time could be cut further if there are staffing shortages. do they agree with this or is there push back from workers that say we're burned out, i have covid, and now i have to rush back to work even faster? >> i think what we'...

Center. dr. spencer, you have been in the thick of it. what are you seeing in the e.r. right now? >> honestly, our e.r.s in new york city have been full for quite sometime and it hasn't just been covid patients. it has been patients who have been putting off routine care since the pandemic started, quite honestly. the other day i saw a patient who had been putting off a heart surgery that he needed from before when the pandemic started, and he waited until his symptoms got so bad it brought him into the emergency room and he got much worse. so right now we're seeing nursing shortages all throu...

Get paid between $5,000 and $10,000 a week, and they are worth every penny of that. they're worth every penny of that. but that sucks staff out of other hospitals. so all over the united states, e.r.s, for instance, are filled with icu patients who don't have a bed in the intensive care units because -- not because there are no beds but because there are no nurses. now, layer on top of that baseline a surge in people being admitted with covid and it's a prescription for a disaster. and what the public needs to do now is lock arms and rally behind our health care professionals, protect our hosp...

Week and they're worth every pen kne -- penny of that but that sucks staff out of other hospitals. so all over the united states, e.r.s for instance are filled with icu patients that don't have a bed in the intensive care units not because there are no beds but there are no nurses. layer on top of that baseline a surge in people being admitted with covid and it's a prescription for disaster. the public needs to lock arms and rally behind the health care professionals, protect our hospitals and the way to do that is to mask up, vax up and boost up. otherwise, if you have a heart attack or strok...