Several hospitals in New York City are starting to divert a majority of ambulances away from their facilities and canceling some elective surgeries ahead of a tentative nurses strike scheduled to begin on Monday.
the common theme was exhaustion with variant after variant coming. it s hard to tell if americans would accept more restrictions and travel bans as the goal posts keep moving. charles? charles: thanks, kelly. so how serious is the threat from this variant? i want to get the record from nyc hospitals, senior director, dr. sarah madden. doctor, it s so interesting that we have these travel restrictions and you have the rest of the world a mixed bag. some people are looking people out. how does the medical community, the scientific community come up with this determination? travel bans are a political move. what we re trying to do is ensure that our potentially coming in with covid-19, we re