overwhelmingly unvaccinated. beaumont health says 443 out of the 583 patients it s caring for are mostly unvaccinated. sarah is a recovering covid patient. she says her vaccination status is private. she and her father who also has covid was as mitted on sunday. i m not allowed to see him because of the quarantining. it s been a roller coaster. sorry. it s been a roller coaster, but now i feel a lot better. she said she needed oxygen when she arrived but no longer, and she credits those working the covid unit here both civilian and military with helping to save her life. and as for urgent pleas for
a little while later the jonas brothers lip-sync, to a viral video where long islanders talk about president biden or biron. but the celebrity tweets weren t without their detractors with critics saying what a waste of time to i never thought i d hate the jonas brothers until now. covid making a comeback a week before christmas. the world health organization says omicron is spreading faster than delta. it s all picking up again and it feels similar to the beginning. scientists in the u.k. race to confirm what real world data already implies. it kide of evades current vaccines and why we kind of need
help bring much. it s probably going to cause more trouble than it helps. when it comes to misinformation about the vaccine, you re seeing it heavily in the right wing media in particular. i do want to play something for you from tucker carlson, what he said on fox news this week. let s listen to that. yes, covid has killed a lot of people, so has prostate cancer. imagine telling people about your prostate every day for the next two years. people would know you were a narcissist. no one would sit next to you at dinner. you would be boorish, and that s exactly what covid talk sounds to the well-adjusted among us. so i m just curious what you think about that. do you think comments like that are why republicans and independents are so hesitant to get the vaccine? i mean, you can t pin it all on one person, right? because a lot of people watch tucker carlson and a lot of those people aren t vaccinated. what do you think? i m not going to comment on any specific media sources
those in the medical field for more people to get vaccinated she says this what do you see as the right thing and the wrong thing? i i really like to stay neutral. reporter: nurses like lisa maddux know the stress for the eighth north team may just be beginning again. will i break in three months? will i break in a year? will i break in ten? i don t have that answer for you. right now i m battling this with my patients, and i don t see a stop anytime soon. reporter: the doctors and nurses here expressed how grateful they are to have the military team here at beaumont hospital in terms of how long they re going to be at beaumont, we re told the military team could be here for a month, possibly longer depending upon the need. after that, they will then move onto another hospital where there is more need. jason carroll, cnn, deerborn, michigan. covid cases surging,
and that s about the most contagious virus we ve seen. this may be the most contagious virus that civilization has faced in our lifetimes. so why would you go into that kind of battle completely unarmed? our vaccines will protect you, particularly if you are triple vaxed. people who are unvaxed should start the process now. go ahead and go to your pharmacy and get vaccinated. you talk about this being a tsunami, how this could be the most transmissible virus we have seen in our lifetimes. i want to share a quote with you from the washington post. the chief quality and patient safety officer at ohio state university said, quote, just about everyone should be prepared to get infected during this wave even if you ve been vaccinated. do you agree with that? and if so are we simply wasting energy on certain covid protocols and restrictions? no.