hospitalizations and the adult side just the overwhelming number of people having to wait six, seven, eight hours, sometimes 12 hours for routine emergency room care for proce procedures or much of our hospital workforce is getting knocked out with symptomatic covid. you have the one, two, three punch. omicron is not as benign as people like to talk about. there is an increase in hospitalizations. people are getting sick from omicron especially unvaccinated. we re getting the kids admitted and the hospital workforce is getting knocked out. we also have the problem two of our three monoclonal antibodies do not work against omicron. the diagnostic testing is in shambles. when you add up all of that together, we ve got a serious situation facing our nation this month. poxolid won t come to market for a few months. this comes to the question about
staff. mandatory vaccine for anybody that is eligible on the adult side. highly recommended required before long for kids that are eligible. ventilation, testing. return to stay. those are happening, you should feel comfortable sending your kid to school. all right. i have to tell you my five year-old is getting her vaccine this week. our family is very excited. thank you so much for your time. next the strides we have made and the fight ahead for social justice. a look at the world reckoning with race im. and later the january 6 committee has up its sleeve in the new year. we approach one one year since the deadly attack on american democracy. inner voice (kombucha brewer): as a new small business owner, i find it useful to dramatically stare out of the window. .so that no one knows i m secretly terrified inside. inner voice (sneaker shop owner): i m using hand gestures and pointing. .so no one can tell i m unsure about my business finances. inner voice (furniture maker): i m consta
mentioned, but then we just heard this morning that the russians were violating that corridor truce and presented even more danger, but what happens when large numbers of people need to evacuate, among those people will be many, many and especially on the adult side, at least half of them may be on some medication for chronic illness. where are they going to get those medications? how are they going to get health care if they have a heart attack or some other problem exiting ukraine? and then there s children with asthma and diabetes and other conditions that must have medications to keep them safe, and all of that becomes jeopardized in this kind of evacuation, and the other thing, too, is that when they get to wherever they re going, whether it s romania, muldova, poland, where are they going to be? yes, there may be temporary shelters, but these children will need to go to school and they ll need medical care and their paernts will need to get
zeroing in on this one at this time for their own reasons, but you also noted in your reporting, quite correctly, that we have concerns, you know, we ve learned lessons from earlier in the year and last year where we need to maintain flexibility. it s interesting that people in congress are complaining about this, about obtaining this capacity, these are a lot of the same people who are complaining about overcrowding just this summer. well, which is it? congress has not taken the steps to provide these facilities. if they don t like the private sector providing these facilities, then they should get i.c.e. and hss, the resources they need, to take care of this to themselves. we need to remain deflects ability as the numbers go down to either house these children s and adults on the adult side, or to draw down our resources when that s appropriate. speaking of resources,