now in the issue hhs set the rates for the hospital's different from the other hospitals and purported to base those rates on acquisition costs but didn't conduct the cost study of the statute requires. the threshold of the government asserts the courts cannot review without agency action with no statutory text review and it makes sense that congress would want the review because the point of that paragraph was to constrain the agency discretion. on the merits the government asserts the separate cost rates for the hospitals can be justified as an exercise of the agency's authority to addressed the rate from the cost study but the paragraph 14 doesn't authorize hhs to the price rates by hospital group and it authorizes the varying cost-based rates only in the presence of a cost study. beyond that, hhs didn't abase the raid on the hospitals on average price at all. it estimated the acquisition cost using a different formula and then swapped that number for the average price number. that's a substitution. it's not an adjustment. i welcome the courts questions. >> if we don't agree with th

is the petitioner's position, there has to be a survey of all hospitals or no hospitals? >> i think there was a footnote where they reject to that aspect of the survey. >> well, if that's the case that does seem to provide an additional reason for what you've done under two. so if you have a group of hospitals that the disputably pay less but the only way you can adjust for that hospital group is to do a survey of all hospitals provides you a way of doing -- of making a much more targeted response to that particular provision, to that particular situation. >> i think that's exactly right. >> it goes back to the point i mentioned earlier this is a sort of idiosyncratic case that hhs has this data that you run the program and also there's been decades worth of independent studies we cite. that's not going to be the case of all other adjustments hhs might want to make. in fact, the original 2005 survey earl your through distinctions of teaching hospitals, urban hospitals, large hospitals and the gao found there are significant differences in all those different categories be

a&e is the gateway to the hospital.patients need to be able to flow into wards and operating theatres to be treated. what happened to you? i fell over walking the dog. how long have you been here? since about 7 o'clock last night. oh, my goodness, that's nearly... 14 hours. nick will be able to go home after he's seen the physio. but they've looked after me fine, so can't fault this hospital at all. but 50 other people are still waiting to be moved out of the emergency department. anyone with a green arrowl by them is somebody who's ready to move to a ward. or ready to move out of the a&e. - there's a computer system showing the status of patients waiting here for a bed elsewhere in the hospital. so, you can see that - all of these patients here, they've had their a&e treatment concluded, and they're waiting i for a bed somewhere else. that's a lot of green arrows, isn't it? the hospital's a bit _ like a hotel, and if somebody's not checked out of their room, you can't put _ a new guest in there. not enough patients are

of the hospital here, they have seen their hospital admissions double in the last seven days. it's important to think about and to understand who is getting hospitalized and who is most critically ill. i want you to hear from dr. andrew berman, a pulmonologist and critical care doctor we just spoke with moments ago. take a listen to what he told me. >> of our sickest patients, most of them are unvaccinated or unknown vaccinated status. it's really clear, the message is get your covid vaccines, get your booster shots. wear your masks, treat this like it was the first wave. don't get comfortable. even healthy people can get very sick. >> reporter: and katy, they're emphasizing those measures, those tools we have in the tool kit even more now because this hospital is getting hit with a one-two punch, more people in their beds, but fewer staff members to care for them because staff themselves are getting sick. they're getting exposed. they're having to isolate, and so that is really putting that strain on the hospital system, and they don't want it to get overwhelmed, really empha

so many people are infected and that's why you are seeing hospitalization rates increase and hospitals are beginning to break at the seams. >> nationwide there are 150,000 covid patients hospitalized right now. a follow-up on the covid-19 outbreak spreading across san quentin tonight. we first brought you the story late last week. it's getting worse. 65 inmates were positive on thursday, and then jumped to 116 two days later, and now 120 inmates are testing positive and more than 80 staff members have the virus. only about 75% of the staff have received the shot. this is the second outbreak at san quentin since the pandemic started back in 2020 and it was one of the worst hot spots. >>> testing continues to be in high demand and people are paying big bucks to learn their covid status. some are paying up to $300 for a rapid pcr tests. state and federal regulations require tests to be free. experts recommend saving your receipts and extra charges are not covered like paying for fast results and the state is looking into price gouging complaints. >>> and then people are taking to social m

are ready as well as double pediatric hospitalization. and i think you cannot argue that it's all on now on the, on it now 98 percent of all on coded cases, circulating throughout the us. and it's been dominant ever since mid to late december. so all these hospitalizations are definitely con, anyone denied that are just lying on the front. you can think it's miles, but it's not that much milder. the face, exponential rise, example california 4.5 percent of the people who are infected get hospitalized. that's only a little bit lower than 5 to 6 percent with delta. so i'm a crime with a financial rights. and that's what people to the hospital which, you know, earlier we heard the joe biden promises to deliver more masks and test. will that her up curb the spread? why the, the master good. the problem is the cdc has a very mix messaging. the cdc director will ask you yesterday, declined somehow decline to recommend premium maps. the or the c. c will be pretty our recommendations. all americans were premium in 951095 math, all the while the w

we're a 600-bed hospital roughly. about 258 now patients with covid in the hospital. so about 40%, roughly, of all the patients in the hospital have been diagnosed with covid. there's 1 hundred patients in the e.r. maybe waiting for beds at any given time so it's really busy and on top of that, there's a lot of health care workers who are out. they get a positive test, and they're out. so at any given time, 20% to 25% of health care workers are out. so busy in terms of overall patient influx, but fewer staff at the same time. so it's a tough situation. i'll tell you as well, jake, i perform neurosurgical operations. they have to have a meeting basically every day before the operating room to determine what it considered urgent or emergent because we're cutting down on the number of elective cases we can do in the midst of this. >> the overwhelming majority of people hospitalized with covid are unvaccinated folks. what do vaccinated americans need to take away fromis? >> well, the reality is that even if you're vaccinated, what is happening right now in hospitals will

hospitals. milder does not mean mild. we cannot look past the strain on our health system and substantial number of deaths. nearly 2200 today, as a result of extremely transmittable omicron variant. please remember vaccinations and boosters. last week, i highlighted three publications that subscribe effectiveness of booster doses in protecting against the omicron variant. it is of critical importance that people remain up-to-date with the cdc recommended covid-19 vaccination. it is vital that we all remaining vigilant in the face of this virus. many are tired. but many of our hospitals are still struggling beyond capacity. it has been a long two years. however, please do your part to lean into the current moment. now is the time to do what we know works. wear a mask. get vaccinated. get boosted. thank you. i will turn it over to dr. fauci. dr. fauci: i would like to spend the next few minutes talking about our plans for the future and our current activities under the development of the universal

so drugs, the key patient out of the hospital they don't have to be administered in the hospital, could prove to be pretty revolutionary. preventing breakdowns and overloaded health care systems is perhaps the most important goal of politicians across the world. some say it's perhaps the most critical milestone on the path to cov, it becoming an endemic rather than a pandemic disease. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, if you come up to what her mother, the beautiful thing will be here by india. a city growing at breakneck speed at the expense with the younger band when we got an eviction notice. this is where our family lives. this is a city wound by from the slums to skyscrapers. in 15 minutes and d, w. to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives, the dire warnings mountains. russian forces digging on ukraine's border and diplomatic todd stall calls for germany to play a more active role are also growing louder. isn't letting its allies down, join us on to the point, to the point with 90 minutes on d. w. control ah. in the green. do you feel worried about the planet

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a hospital _ those pressures. for now, thanks for joining us. a hospital in _ those pressures.e last few minutes has declared a major incident after nearly 500 of their staff were absent because of covid, which has led to extremely high pressure on urgent care. we welcome viewers now. it will be led by borisjohnson alongside professor so chris whitty and the chief scientific officer for the uk, sir patrick vallance. let's speak to our little correspondent ione wells, who joins us now from westminster. what are the competing, conflicting demands on the government at this time, because clearly some people think there should be more restrictions, some people think there shouldn't be any? exactly and we are seeing _ there shouldn't be any? exactly and we are seeing different _ there shouldn't be any? exactly and we are seeing different parts - there shouldn't be any? exactly and we are seeing different parts of - there shouldn't be any? exactly and we are seeing different parts of the | we are seeing different parts of the uk responding differently at the moment to

it is really impacting our hospital. with the other variants, our peak would be about 20 kids in the hospital at a time. lately, it has been about 60 or 70. about one third of those children are in the icu. what we are seeing out too is this syndrome that happens two to three weeks after the coronavirus, it is called multi-simpson -- multi-symptom inflammatory syndrome where the entire immune system attacks itself because it is turned on somehow by the virus and we are seeing that. those kids are ending up in the icu. those are just numbers, but as a doctor, before i was a ceo, and as a dad, married to a nurse, when you see a child that is struggling to breathe and can't get air and we have to put them on a ventilator and do those things, it is, as you pointed out, putting a lot of pressure on doctors, nurses, pharmacists, folks that keep the hospital clean. they are stressed but i am proud of how our hospital has stepped up. we have not turned a patient away. we have not close the clinic. we had a huge snowstorm in the

but now look at hospitalizations in maryland. hospitalizations are getting there too.ew record for daily hospitalizations this weekend. and it is not just the east coast. here is ohio. we see the same thing, a case chart where the numbers just straight up to the moon in recent days. but as of this weekend, look at the new hospitalization record in ohio too. and in new york, the state with the most cases per capita right now, look at the rise in those case numbers. cases keep soaring every day. there's been no relief in terms of new case numbers. so far the state of new york hasn't set a hospitalization record. but look at where it's going, every new day the state is inching closer to last winter's hospitalization peak. and that incline you see on the right side of the chart is very steep. we're seeing record breaking numbers, not just of cases, of hospitalizations in the first hard-hit states. if those first hard-hit states are an indicator of where we're heading as a country, it looks like -- well, it looks like we're in for as-yet unprecedented times. joining us now

surge, have an impact on hospitals.ful for what they do. i want to provide an update on our fight against covid-19 and announce new steps. first the update. i know we're all frustrated as we enter this new year. the omicron variant is causing millions of cases and record hospitalizations. i've been saying that as we remain in this pandemic, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. vaccinated and unvaccinated people are testing positive. what happens after that could not be more different. if vaccinated people test positive they're overwhelmingly having no symptoms at all or mild symptoms. if you're unvax namted if they test positive you are 17 times more likely to get hospitalized. as a result, they're crowding the hospitals leaving little room for anyone else who might have a heart attack or an injury in an automobile accident or any injury at all. the unvaccinated are dying from covid-19 but here's the deal. because we fully vaccinated nearly 210 million americans the majority of the country is safe from severe covid-1

every monday morning, dr abiad tours the hospital wards not to see patients, but to make sure the hospitaling. i think that we are passing through a most difficult situation. so, as our circumstances are becoming more difficult, the demands on us by patients is increasing, and that has really put us in a very precarious situation. in late 2019, spiralling national debt contributed to the collapse of lebanon's economy. now, the country is facing the highest levels of inflation seen anywhere in the world. almost entirely reliant on imports, the country is now facing massive shortages. a nationwide shortage of fuel has led to sweeping power cuts. at the hospital, this means relying on their back—up generators for up to 23 hours a day. jihad chihimi is the head of engineering. it's his responsibility to keep the generators running. the lives of the hospital's patients depend on them. if lebanon does run out of fuel, a lot of people will lose their lives — it's as simple as that. with the majority of lebanon's medications also imported, the hospital's pharmacy is running on critically low suppl

so drugs, the keep patients out of a hospital that don't have to be administered in the hospital could proved to be pretty revolutionary. preventing breakdowns and overloaded health care systems is perhaps the most important goal of politicians across the world. some say it's perhaps the most critical milestone on the path to cov, it becoming an endemic rather than a pandemic disease. oh, oh. with who to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. the dire warnings mountain russian forces dig in on ukraine's border and diplomatic todd stall calls for germany to play a more active role are also growing louder. isn't letting its allies down join us on to the point to the point with in 30 minutes on d. w. farm 1st, then in japan to learning early on where their food actually comes from and to respect nature's provision. the result healthier diet and less obesity. school can take so good global 3090 minutes on d w. o . well go to the dark side where intelligence agencies are pulling the strings. there was a before 911 and after 911, he says, after 911, the club

i hospitals in london that things might be improving.— hospitals in london that things might be improvingmight be improving. i was talking to london chief executives _ might be improving. i was talking to london chief executives last - might be improving. i was talking to london chief executives last week. | london chief executives last week. they were seeing some very concerning daily increases of the numbers of people coming into hospital, 9%, 15%, 9% on the 27th, 28 and 29th of december. but in the last two days those numbers have dropped, the increases to i% and to 2%. dropped, the increases to 1% and to 296. �* , dropped, the increases to 196 and to 296. �* , , ., 296. but remember, there is a time la. 296. but remember, there is a time lag between _ 296. but remember, there is a time lag between peeple _ 296. but remember, there is a time lag between people being - 296. but remember, there is a time lag between people being infected| lag between people being infected and son ending up in hospital and the government expects a big increase in people being admitted in the coming weeks.

nick scriven works at a hospital in the north of england. he and his colleagues were treating 25 clothing patients. i have a christmas now it's around a $160.00 or less patients intensive care, which is a blessing. but on the general, was there a lot more coupled with perhaps it feels like more stop off than there have been a time just make a very stretch and we're dealing with a usual winter plus all the coding related work as well. so it's worse than it's been in terms of numbers for a long time, more patients to treat and fewer staff to treat them. it's a worrying mix that lead a number of hospitals to declare critical incidence this month. and it's not just hospitals struggling to maintain services, several rail services, stripping back journeys on able to find the staff to operate them. what do we see? jump up to doing that. i'm. schools are also facing a staffing crisis here. one in 12 teachers were absent in england, north meet at this high school in london, staff absences hit one in 10. there is nothing easy about this at all. you kn

hospitalizations and deaths. with regard to that, i want to ground ourselves in comparison to last year. last year we lost 165 san franciscans to covid in january of 2021. this month to date we have lost five. now we don't know what covid has in store for us, but we do have great defenses against this virus. vaccinations and boosters and i expect in the relatively near future effective antiviral medication. we know how to layer defenses. during periods with high transmission when we must protect front line workers and vulnerable by masking, testing, improving ventilation. staying home when sick. omicron taught us we have vulnerabilities in the system of care. we need testing to be accessible, affordable and fast to truly use this tool together safely. we are working with our state and federal partners to make rapid over the counter tests easy to come by and requiring the healthcare system partners to step up and do their part with regard to testing as they have done with hospitalization. we anticipate new tools t

personal choice impacts us all -- our hospitals, our country.a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets, please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that's on your shows. it has to stop. covid-19 is one of the most formidable enemies america has ever faced. we've got to work together, not against each other. we're america. we can do this. to the military medical teams on the ground, thank you for all and everything you're doing. and i'll stop here, so we can get the briefing started. but thank you for taking the time. >> mr. president, do you have a message for vaccinated americans who are wondering why they should continue to restrict their activities, given that your health officials say most americans will get covid at some point? pres. biden: folks, we'll talk about that later. come on. [indiscernible] [cross-talk] >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, guys. >> thank you, everybody. appreciate you. >> maybe a press conference soon, mr. president? we look forward to that. [laughter] pres. biden: me, to

so drugs they keep patients out of the hospital, they don't have to be administered in the hospital, could prove to be pretty revolutionary. preventing breakdowns and overloaded health care systems is perhaps the most important goal of politicians across the world. some say it's perhaps the most critical milestone on the path to cove. it becoming an endemic rather than a pandemic disease. oh, oh oh. oh, i send to the conflict with to sebastian the streets of hong kong, a quiet these days. the pro democracy movements have been tamed. this week we talk for a 2nd time to regina, if long time, low amaica in hong kong, legislative council, and head of the prob, aging new people's party. what kind of future for hong kong, now conflict with 30 minutes on d. w. to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. the dire warnings mount as russian forces dig in on ukraine's border and diplomatic todd stall calls for germany to play a more active role are also growing louder. isn't letting its allies down join us on to the point to the point with 90 minutes on d. w. som

there is still uncertainty _ hospitals. there is still uncertainty about - hospitals. is hospitals. there is still - uncertainty about what is ahead although the nhs is sure that the strain on the front line won�*t ease off any time soon. now to kazakhstan where the president of that country has awarded its security forces to use lethal force. days of unrest and mass demonstrations began this week after sudden rise in fuel prices. authorities say dozens have been killed or injured. security forces say order has largely been restored. the army of kazakhstan is standing guard here on the streets of almaty. after days of violence and many protesters killed the state�*s security forces seemed to be back in control and when we came close to them the warning not to approach is very clear. today the president was clear. any unrest will be met with lethal force.— clear. any unrest will be met with lethal force. terrorists continue to dama . e lethal force. terrorists continue to damage state _ lethal force. terrorists continue to damage state and _ lethal force. terrorists con

so looking at the hospitals are like where you are in nashville. the research indicates that on the chron can be milder than previous variance, but more people get it. so what does this mean for the pressure on hospitals and health care stuff in the united states? you have the mild infections or bringing people to outpatient departments to clinics and to emergency rooms, but they're not being admitted to the hospital. when the virus finds people who are on vaccinated, that's the group that distressing the hospitals at the present time. and to make things a little worse around our country, influenza is now acting up another respiratory virus that can put people into the hospital. so i think the next month in united states is going to be very, very difficult for the health care system. some countries here in europe for example, are now introducing tougher restrictions on the under vaccinated, and there was a discussions here around vaccine mandates. do you think this can be necessary? will this be necessary in the united states? well, only a differen

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mcfee, i mentioned what's happening at your hospital at elliot hospital.are sicker, younger and many without preexisting conditions. what are they telling you once they're in the hospital? >> you know, i hope that we get to the place where dr. varga is right now. we're not seeing that in new hampshire. right now we have more covid patients in the icu than we ever have since the beginning of this pandemic. our icu is full and we've had to create a second icu just to take care of the other patients. the patients that are coming in, i think they generally didn't think they would be sick or this sick from covid. a lot of them are younger and a lot of them don't have preexisting conditions and have been healthy before coming to the hospital. a lot of them are remorseful, they're scared, they're really worried. but i think a lot of them honestly didn't think they would get this sick. >> in terms of where we are in january of 2022 with regards to the treatment tools that we have that we did not have at the start of the pandemic, have those been especially helpful

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and it's really impacting our hospital. you know, with the other variants our peak would be about 20 kids in the hospital at a time. lately, it's been about 60 or 70. about 1/3 of their children are in the i.c.u. and then what we're seeing now too is there's this syndrome that happens two to three weeks after the coronavirus, it's called multisystem inflammatory syndrome where the body's system inflammatory and immune system attacks itself because it's turned on somehow by the virus and we're seeing that. and those kids are ending up in the i.c.u. so those are just numbers. but you know, as a -- as a doctor before i was a c.e.o. and as a dad and marid to a nurse -- married to a thursday in, the impact when you see a child that's struggling to breathe that can't get air and we have to put a ventilator -- put them on a ventilator or do those kinds of things, it is just really as you've pointed out putting a lot of pressure on our doctors, the nurse, the pharmacists, the folks that keep the hospital clean. and so we're -- ther

but only 12 were hospitalized for covid illness. >> reporter: this e.r. dr. jean noble says before the vaccines most of those testing positive in the hospitals were in need of critical covid care. >> my job went from patients coming in in respiratory distress worrying would we have enough ventilators to now in january of 2022 the majority of people who come in with covid i discharge home really quickly. >> reporter: she says today most severe cases are among the unvaccinated while the high hospitalization counts among children in the bay area appear to paint a much more dire picture than they're seeing in the emergency rooms. >> we had 19 kids hospitalized for covid but only six were in house, were admitted patients because of covid. >> reporter: in marin county, california out of the 20 listed as covid hospitalizations last week ten were admitted for covid out of the 20 cases reported to the cdc as covid-19 hospitalizations, three of them were women that were asymptomatic that were delivering babies? >> that's right. if we don't understand the distinction be

edith is a hospital chaplain.days — comforting the dying and their families, but also supporting staff who feel the losses intensely. whenever you've got lots of people dying on the ward, you know, - it comes at a huge cost to the staff, as well- as to the families. and at london's royal free hospital, staff spoke openly of the mental strain on the front line. families are upset. we shed tears for our patients, we do. when we met this nurse, she'd only started her nursing career a few months earlier. but already, she'd seen more deaths and bereavement than some who'd been nursing for many years. to protect her parents, she's moved out of the family home and is living on her own. we don't have time, you know — if a patient dies, i have seven other patients to take care of. i have to cry and wipe my tears and go to my next patient and say, "hi, are you ready for your evening meds?" and be happy — because they won't know. but when you go home and there's silence, and there's no family, that's when it hits. when peopl

hospital in three days or less. this study controls for important key program tiers such as age -- parameters such as age, sex, prior sasser cov-2 infection. the data in this study remain consistent with what we're seeing from omicron in other countries, including south africa and the u.k. and provides some understanding of what we can expect over the coming weeks as cases are predicted to peak in this country. while we are seeing early evidence that omicron is less severe than delta, and that those infected with less likely to require hospitalization, it's important to note that omicron continues to be much more transmissable than delta. the sudden and steep rise in cases due to omicron is resulting in unprecedented daily case counts, sickness, absenteeism and strains on our health care system. the risk of hospitalization remains low, especially among people who are up to date on their covid vaccine. however, the staggering rise in cases, over one million new cases each day, has led to a high number of total hospit

it is leave, have to continue occupying hospital beds.— hospital beds.ds. it is terribly frustrating. i could - hospital beds. it is terribly frustrating. i could be - hospital beds. it is terribly frustrating. i could be at i hospital beds. it is terribly - frustrating. i could be at home now and admitted, i can't seem to do what _ and admitted, i can't seem to do what i _ and admitted, i can't seem to do what i used — and admitted, i can't seem to do what i used to do but i'd be in my own environment and life would be more _ own environment and life would be more pleasant. and they are stressed here in— more pleasant. and they are stressed here in overworked. the more pleasant. and they are stressed here in overworked.— here in overworked. the nhs wants more patients _ here in overworked. the nhs wants more patients like _ here in overworked. the nhs wants more patients like derek _ here in overworked. the nhs wants more patients like derek treated i more patients like derek treated with from hospitals. he had problems after an operation but newcastle

is in the hospital for covid-19 or with covid-19.en almost a year since you've been running the agency. do we have that split on numb numbers? >> dr. walensky: you know, what i will say is a difference by each variant. of so some variant -- first of all, we're doing screening of many -- in many hospitals, of everybody was walking the door. what we are seeing with the omicron variant is that it tends to be milder person by person but given how large the numbers are we are seeing more and more cases come into the hospital. and some hospitals that we've talked to come up to 40% of the patients who are in with covid-19 are coming and not because they are sick with covid, but because they are coming in with something else and have had to -- covid or have they variant detected. speeone's you know how many of the 836,000 deaths in the u.s. linked to covid are from covid or how many are with covid but they had other comorbidities, do you have that breakdown? >> dr. walensky: yes, of course, with omicron we are following that very carefully.

last month hospitals were packed and now the move in cape town christian barnard memorial hospital appearslmost placid. >> this is another day of the icu of hours and normally operates at 100% occupancy is now with about 50% of occupancy for covid-positive patients dr. shikah advises calm for other countries now dealing with omicron >> have we seen high infection rate translate to high disease rates that would have been a reason for concern however, we have not seen a greater severity of disease with the current variant of omicron >> in fact, the death rate in south africa has barely risen dr. angela kunzi has identified the new omicron variant. >> what can the united states expect to see given the cases? >> a high number of cases, but you look at your death rate and icu cases, it doesn't matter how high your positivity rate is as long as your hospitals are not overwhelmed. >> the head of the cdc said the u.s. might mimic south african places. >> i do think in places that we are seeing a really steep incline, that we may well see a precipitous decline, but we're also a much bigger country

one in five hospitals with an icu, that's more than 700 hospitals, reporting that at least 95% of icueds were full last week. according to the department of health and human services. in massachusetts, doctors and nurses are sounding alarm bells with an urgent appeal. we are overwhelmed. your emergency departments are at a breaking point. the strain on testing continues to be a problem too. ohio turning to its national guard for help while florida's surgeon general offers a new approach, what he calls high value testing, prioritizing those most at risk. and alisyn and victor, israel has started giving fourth shots, boosters to people who are 60 and up, as well as healthcare workers. a new preliminary study out of israel shows that fourth shot of a pfizer vaccine can improve antibodies five fold within the space of a week, seems to support the policy that's being rolled out in israel. meanwhile here in the u.s., the struggle continues to get more adults to get a first course of vaccine, children as well, who still remain the least vaccinated age group, even in the face of what we are s

and hoping that we don't run out of hospital capacity.nd again, it's not just the bed capacity in the hospital. what we're really worried about is hospital staff getting ill and having to isolate. and it's going to be close in many parts of the country. we're seeing hospitalizations in places like new york, rise significantly, you know where i live and work in d.c., also we're seeing hospitalizations rise. we still have some capacity, but it's all going to depend on when this surge crests. and for parts of the united states that are less well vaccinated than new york and d.c., they're going to have that real soon. >> a new study found that it will wane with omicron but it wanes even more an a natural infection. what does this mean for people listening to someone like florida governor ron desantis who has argued that a natural infection is institute for vaccination. i'm sure you've seen the comments online about omicron being nature's vaccine. what are you saying to people? >> well, i say look at what's happened in florida. florida has had

and that increase in hospitalizations. i would expect a should as if judging by what happened in south africa. what seems to happen in the u. k. again, it's all very difficult to tell you case, probably a better example for us we see a big saw to it's kind of spike and then things go back down again. so there's the expect taishan, the next 3 or 4 weeks will be particularly difficult for hospitals. but once again, with the statistics with adults there is that sense they, that a lot of those, i mean there was some reports in the new york times and from some hospitals around the country that maybe maybe half of those who being diagnosed with carpet have gone into hospital with different conditions they brought in for different reasons, but then that once they're bad, they seem to be covered too complicated positive, and so they are now officially cobit patients. but when, when such a large amount of the population is being infected than an average of those who are going into hospital will have, will have the virus. it's, so w

we checked in with a few bay area hospitals. stanford hospital is proactively waiting to schedule nonurgent operations. it's outpatient surgeries are not affected. ucsf medical center decided weeks ago to put a pause on scheduling new elective surgeries in anticipation of this surge. bringing elective surgeries 15% below normal. we checked this with the kaiser spokesperson who said they have adjusted elective and nonsurgeries as needed. also this morning in southern california, health care workers responding to the state department of public health's recent announcement that those who test positive could continue to work in hospitals and clinics as long as they are without symptoms. >> i have been thinking about, maybe it's time to get out because this is absolutely ridiculous. now you don't even know whether the person you are working with is positive and has maybe spreading it. >> that woman very concerned there. going back to the nonurgent surgeries being postponed. each week it'll be reviewing the list of surge rips it has a

at the moment, hospital hospitalizations and fatalities have started rising here and was very clear as they were already dealing with a backlog. the effects of months of this pandemic with hospitalizations, now rising when to pressures and crucially stuff absence is fueled by this on the chron variant. this is a critical time for the health service. at the moment, as you mentioned, dahlia here in london, the military, 200 military personnel have been sent in to try and support the health services. of course, that will do not compensate with the sheer number of staff who are absent, why slicing and you know, as we heard in the report, authorities are hopeful because they believe on the crime infections may be passed for their peak. how would they get to that conclusion specifically? it is extremely early days for that last week. we still record case numbers over 200000 here in the u. k. the last couple of days have seen a bit of a dip on that extremely high figure. but as i say very early days to be saying that the u. k is past the peak. you have to look at this regionally. of course, h

our hospitals, our country. i make a special appeal to social media companies and outlets, please deal with the disinformation and misinformation on your shows. it has to stop. covid-19 is one of the most formidable enemies america has ever faced. we have to work together, not against each other. we're america. we can do this. to the military medical teams on the ground, thank you for everything you're doing. i'll stop here so we can get to the briefing started. thank you for taking the time. reporter: [indiscernible] -- vaccinated americans who -- [indiscernible] -- most americans will get covid at some point? president biden: we'll talk about that later. [talking simultaneously] >> thank you so much. reporter: [indiscernible] [talking simultaneously] >> thank you. >> thanks, everybody. appreciate you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] >> at least six pr

ohio hit a record high in covid hospitalizations earlier in week.cinnati mayor john cranley joining me now. mayor, good to see you. sorry under such circumstances. so what do you do with this situation as the cases continue to climb, people are out sick including your firefighters? what can you handle? what can you do? >> happy new year, fredricka. thanks for having me. look, we obviously heading into the third year of this pandemic have got to figure out how to live with the pandemic, live with the virus and continue to provide basic services. so i declared a state of emergency so that my fire chief to do some unpopular things like mandatory overtime and that's how we're managing now. the caseload continues to rise every day among our firefighters and over 99% of them are vaccinated. the cases we're seeing are mild, but we've got to make sure that the basic services that our citizens depend upon are being serviced every day. >> so extending basic services, offering overtime, i mean, that also sounds like a lot of people will be very taxed under ver

hospitalizations seeing a dramatic increase and kids having to go to the hospital because of their symptoms. now, this is one big reason why the u.s. secretary of education is pleading with school districts all across the country to go back to masking inside. kids and staff, students, faculty, all of the above, if you're in school buildings, to wear a mask, encouraging people to get vaccinated, to do the things we know can help mitigate the spread of covid-19. listen to his plea and why he believes that could be key to keeping kids in school for learning. >> i think parents have had enough of school closures due to poor policy, so let's protect our students and our staff. let's keep our communities thriving. it's unfortunate that the numbers are going up, but we know how to continue during the pandemic. we charlotte hornet have shutdowns or our schools closed for a long period of time. if we know what works, we should employ it. we have the resources. we need to come together for our students. they deserve that. >> paula, we're already seeing at least one school district here in georgia, fu

bret: speaking of statistics, it seems to make a difference if the person in the hospital is in the hospitali would 19 or with covid-19. it's been almost a year since you've been running the agency. do we have that split on numbers? >> you know, what i will say is it differs by each varian variant. so, first of all, we're doing screening in many hospitals of everybody who's walking in the if door. what we're seeing with the omicron variant is that it tends to be milder person by person, but given how large the numbers are that we're seeing more and more cases come into the hospital. and some hospitals that we've talked to up to 40% of the patients who were coming in with covid are coming in not because they're sick with covid, but because they're coming in with something else and have had covid or the omicron variant detected. breathe. bret: right. but do you know how many of the 833,000 depths in the u.s -- 836,000 deaths are linked to covid or how many with covid but they had other co-morbidities? do you have that breakdown? >> yes, of course. with omicron we're following that very careful

the good news is. >> hospital pediatric hospitals the state children's hospitals as well as many hospitalstake care of young people have well supported that they are able to take on the current demands and that many of the young people will go there and mated with covid and not being admitted to the icu pick used pediatric intensive care unit. >> with cases skyrocketing in los angeles county home to next month's super bowl. the nfl is said to be looking at alternative sites just in case. but doctor gala gave no indication the state will put a stop to the game. i think californians are excited. >> justesee that i'm going to the work is to make sure that as it is a moving forward as planned mitigation strategies dead. >> 50 around that face. >> doctor galley also indicated the california pushing ahead with in-person schooling. no plans to move that online. he also talked about both students and adults need to ditch that cloth mask unless they have a surgical mask over it. and at the same time they can also go with a more secure and 95 or kn 94 mask. he says now is the time to really step it