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This evening. places like kharkiv and sumy are being hit hard. you mentioned maripol in a desperate condition. russians have hit hospitals, churches and apartment buildings. they hit an art school earlier today. around 400 people mostly elderly, women and children were taking shelter from those attacks. we don t know what condition they re in. many people are feared to be trapped under the rubble. in that city. where the situation is just going from bad to worse. here in lviv, there is relative safety. this is a safe zone here in lviv. where waves and waves of displaced have come. that maybe changing too. there was an attack on an airport maintenance facility just four miles from the city center. and one of the hyper sonic bombs that you mentioned landed about ....
Center in teaneck, new jersey. good to have you on. it s so important for folks to see and hear from people like you because there s a sort of out of sight, out of mind phenomenon with this. kind gf on with your normal life, but you re seeing it. you re seeing this every day. one of the hardest hit hospitals during the height of last year s covid. what is it like today? well, it s very different from it was a year ago when we had our second wave. we had between 70 and 90 patients after the holidays admitted to the hospital with several on ventilators. this year we re seeing a different trend. we re seeing a high community positivity rate, but we re not seeing as many inpatients. today, for example, we started with 31 patients. we re down to 29. one is on a ventilator. and so we re seeing a much different type of illness. we re seeing a less severity so that it s more in the community what we re seeing. that s interesting to hear. ....
Way. well, meanwhile, the pentagon says the u.s. military is now helping out with covid relief efforts. on monday the defense department announced military teams will be heading to indiana, wisconsin, to help staff hard hit hospitals there. military crews are already on the ground in five states. some areas have deployed the national guard to help with testing as well as vaccinations. and the national hockey league plans to pause its season until after christmas due to the rising covid cases. two games set for tuesday still on as of now. otherwise no more games until next monday. the league is also discussing whether it s safe for players to travel to the beijing winter olympics in february, of course. now, outside of the united states, omicron is prompting a wave of new restrictions and closures across europe. london is cancelling its new year s eve party in trafalgar square. infections are at record levels and people s health must be protected, he says. ....
And it should be noted that the overwhelming number of people, patients they re seeing here in the hospital, are unvaccinated. that accounts for most of those who are in icu. and most of those who are on ventilators. jim? that s been a consistent fact of this pandemic. jason carroll, shimon prokupecz, thank you. in kentucky, drew armstrong was allowed inside a covid ward in one of the state s hardest hit hospitals and he tweeted about the alarming things he saw there. writing, one man was in a high flow oxygen mask, he was lying in bed making tiny fast bites at the air, gasping. he looked like he was suffocating, like a dying fish, washed up on the beach. doctors at that hospital are increasingly frustrated with the general public s attitude that things are all back to normal. joining us now, dr. shelly stanko. so good to have you on today. ....