that? there are about 10 million workers according to the supreme court opinion that are covered by that mandate. some of those hospitals may have trouble filling positions as doctor makary says some of the employees want to get back to work they may have not be able to go back to work. that s the problem with the broad mandates about national level as they treat everybody the same. they do not allow any room for governors or local cities, local employees. each individual hospital to make the decisions that are best for their situation. david: dan, you wrote a column this week that looked at the bright side of what is happening here. americans are realizing the government does not have all the answers. it is not necessarily follow science. we saw that in clear fashion when justice made a huge air and her description of how many children are being hospitalized and very sick.
that s all we cannot be is in policies designed for delta in an era of omicron. david: in europe and israel as well they allow natural immunity to substitute for vaccines. should we be doing that here? absolutely. here s why it is not just a philosophical debate. careers are being ruined by the government saying yes you have antibodies that neutralize the virus, but those are antibiotics that we as the government do not recognize. and unfortunately when the cdc says something like that, companies fall in line. we see careers are ruined we see students being removed from college. we see soldiers dishonorably discharged. when he to recognize natural immunity especially in health care worker setting given the recent ruling of the supreme court we are at risk of losing a significant number of staff who have immunity. but they do not have vaccinated immunity we need to recognize that her will have a major staff crisis shortage on top of the existing crisis.
the presidential value of a decision like that would have been extraordinary. i think in this white house the progressive democrats have no reluctance whatsoever to try to push federal authority as far as they can on any basis that they can. and the fact the supreme court stopped them here at a time when the american public is becoming more skeptical of federal authority is a very, very good sign for those of us who believe in federalism. i believe you re right on that. kim, it s also going to make it hard for people like dr. fauci or facebook fact checkers they represent signs and those who disagree with them don t. it has been the biggest problem of this year. one side is claimed to have all of the answers even though those answers change apparently every three weeks. you are not allowed to push back. look what happened to the signers of the declaration. when we are looking back we
hasn t that already begun? we have a lot of hospital workers in the state of new york i believe 8000 hospital workers lost their job as they quit as a result of the vaccine mandates. it s causing staff shortages at a critical time in our history. ironically one of the hospitals in the northwest united states has had such significant staffing shortages they have actually told steph hey, come back even if you have symptoms. now that makes absolutely no sense to fire people who have immunity and no symptoms and they test negative. and then to bring in people who test positive into the clinical setting. that is the kind of crazy rationing we are seeing as a result of this convoluted strategy of ignoring natural immunity. david: image of the supreme court decision. when we talk about the legal and political implications of it in a second period the scientific implication was that the right decision?
see a variant and merge that spreads just as quickly as omicron but is more deadly? it is a possibility. the virus to mutate in a way is higher and higher. it s far more likely will see a variant mutate make most mutations are downward mutations over 99%. i do believe we are going to continue to see the virus mutate in the animal kingdom. that animal reservoir spit out new variant in perpetuity. maybe every couple of years or every viral season. but remember there s a host of over dozen viruses that cause the common cold that circulate season to season. it s not something we change our lifestyle around me on standard precautions. david: dr. marty makary i was a pleasure to see your doctor thank you for being here. thanks. we come back businesses breathing a sigh of relief as the supreme court blocks the biden administration vaccine mandate for private employers.