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Patriotic duty to get vaccinated. >> that's what the science shows. shimon, new york is a city where there is big demand for testing. that's good. people want to know if they're infected so they can get treated, not expose family members. what is the city doing because many of those testing facilities have been overwhelmed. >> reporter: overwhelmed. some of them shutting down. one of the most popular places people go to, city md, saying that several locates of their locations were closing to help deal with some of the staffing issues. and also to protect some of their staffers who have been ov...

Keep the schools open. but yet you have individual school districts making other decisions. we already know how detrimental it has been to have schools shut down and now we have omicron which is not -- more transmissible but more mild. what do you make of all this? you write about it a lot. >> the one thing i would really have to emphasize is the importance of keeping not only keeping schools open but keeping kids in school. there are tools we have to do that. we know schools can be operated safely and in general schools are a low-risk environment. the question is how do we have schools withou...

They almost all exclusively unvaccinated? >> so my experience -- i can only speak to my experience in my hospital which is the main campus and, yes, every patient that i admitted to my service in the icu and have seen through the e.d. who is critically ill sun vaccinated. >> and we know delta is still the biggest problem here in the u.s. which explains this late f-surge, but we have the omicron variant, too, spreading rapidly around the world in places like the uk right now, the british medical association warning that tens of thousand of medical staff could soon be out kick with covid by chri...

Both. i'd say the cancellations is a bigger— both. i'd say the cancellations is a bigger strain on the business currently— bigger strain on the business currently than of the staffing issue for us _ currently than of the staffing issue for us we — currently than of the staffing issue for us. we have kind of learned to adapt _ for us. we have kind of learned to adapt in _ for us. we have kind of learned to adapt in respect of the staffing issues — adapt in respect of the staffing issues. it's something we have become — issues. it's something we have become quite accustomed to, especia...

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