if you look at sweden with no lockdowns or vaccinations and look at the death rate there. over time, they are realizing they can t justify vaccine mandates for a disease that is treatable and cheap to treat so you can almost bet money on every time they need another. , one full-service. judge jeanine: so doctor, new york governor hopeful signed an executive order and she put an end to elective surgery and before we even know we have this in the united states or new york so that is of today. let s say i have a broken bone and i want fixed, they can t do it now because she s got to make sure their hospital beds available. is she nuts? practices for community hospitals are state and your rights. the people waiting for cancer
being exposed for its failures. if you look at sweden with no lockdowns or vaccinations and look at the death rate there. over time, they are realizing they can t justify vaccine mandates for a disease that is treatable and cheap to treat so you can almost bet money on every time they need another. , one full-service. judge jeanine: so doctor, new york governor hopeful signed an executive order and she put an end to elective surgery and before we even know we have this in the united states or new york so that is of today. let s say i have a broken bone and i want fixed, they can t do it now because she s got to make sure their hospital beds available. is she nuts? practices for community hospitals are state and your rights. the people waiting for cancer
and things people need and early cancer surgeries that we can t stap. the morale is low. our staff is overworked and doing overtime to cover things. we re taking great care of patients still. but the surge is still rising and i m not sure that we ll be able to meet the demands that we re seeing in the future. i m going to let that sink in. the concern you won t be able to meet the demand. you bring up the staffing concerns as well. i spoke this week with the same river health system that she just submitted her resignation because she s so exhausted. she s an icu nurse and so burnt out. here is the picture that she painted for us earlier this week. i work in a 12-bed icu. all 12 patients are all covid and unvaccinated. we do not have a fully vaccinated people in the icu. and they are young. we re watching not grand parents this time around, parents. parents with young children. we have a mother right now who
were told that their cancer surgeries which are considered elective cancer surgeries have been delayed. and so it is certainly scary for all of them and scary for people who can get sick, and there is no capacity at the hospitals. in many cities across the country. duncan: and while in are cities as you noted that are having real issues with hospitalizations, do you see us going back to where we were in the near future where cities are shut down. i don t think we re going to shut down but i think we ll go back to wearing masks and go back to more restrictive behaviors to stop spread of the virus. we have no choice at the present time. duncan: when you look at the number of children that are either back in school or getting ready to go back, do you think this is a situation where parents should try and keep their children home if they can? reporter: it is a difficult question, jericka. really depends where you live and what are the numbers in those areas and your level of risk tol