is that where we re headed? you know, don, our health care systems are already overwhelmed. my own hospital system today delayed or canceled almost all elective surgeries requiring an overnight stay and many of the day surgeries as well are being canceled. those are things like gallbladders, joint surgeries, things people have been waiting for for months. we are in the midst of a delta wave here in rhode island right now, not yet an omicron wave. so absolutely things are going to get worse before they get better at health systems around the country. and i will say as an e.r. doc this is the time to follow the girl scout model motto and be prepared. if you don t already, buy rapid tests for home, have ibuprofen, chicken soup, possibly a pulse oximeter. again, if you re fully vaccinated, you re almost certainly going to be okay. but expect that over the winter holidays you ll likely have an exposure to someone who tests positive just given the way things are going in the country, and
is on the wall, you see covid hospitalizations up 43% just from a month ago, according to the hhs, an alarming one in six hospitals already reporting critical staffing shortages, even if omicron cases cause less severe illness, i mean, could it still end up overwhelming our health care systems, is that where we re headed? you know, don, our health care systems are already overwhelmed. my own hospital system today delayed or cancelled almost all l elective surgeries requiring an overnight stay and many of the day surgeries as well are being cancelled, things like gallbladders, joint surgeries, things that people have been waiting for for months. we are in the midst of a delta wave in rhode island, not yet an omicron wave, so absolutely things are going to get worse before they get better at health systems around the country, and i will say as an e.r. doc, this is the time to follow the girl scout model and be prepared, if
to be 2% more browner. that s not to mean we are against white voters but we have to be more inclusive. maria, isn t that the case, if hillary clinton turns out 50,000 more black voters in philadelphia and milwaukee, she wins. i think this is where i m going to channel the girl scout model. make new friends but keep the old ones. they didn t maintain both. i believe that while you have to make sure that you re addressing the issues of white working class, it doesn t mean that that is not synonymous with the same issues and struggles that african-americans and latinos are, working on, especially when it comes to education and the economy. very rarely in this election did you hear anybody talk about straight about poverty and what was happening in rural areas and because of that, that was a missed opportunity. again, let s not forget, when you i want to go back to my example of georgia. latinos were 2% and 13% are