shows more than 80% of hospital beds across the u.s. are currently in use, meaning hospitals are more full now than they ve been at any point in the pandemic so far. and a professor of epidemiology at ucla joins me now from los angeles. great to have you with us. thanks for having me, rosemary. o the covid pandemic isn t over yet, and now public health officials are worried about what some are calling the tripledemic made up of covid, flu, and rsv. how big a threat could this prove to be given we re already seeing record rates of hospitalizations and empty pharmacy shelves right here in the united states. the thing that we worry about when we see so many cases of all three viruses surging at the same time is what s going to happen with our hospitals. are they going to be able to have enough beds? are the icus going to be overwhelmed?
british foreign secretary and she has said previously that the g7 foreign ministers, nato allies, need to go further and faster when it comes to military support. she wants to see ukraine supplied with nato standard equipment and that has been echoed by other members of this alliance. we ve heard from the ukrainian foreign minister, he wants the support to be maintained if not boosted as the threat continues. nada, thank you and we ll be back with you as the meetings take place. the u.s. has reached 1 million deaths from covid. for a comparison, that is more than the total number of casualties the u.s. has had in all the wars you see there combined. president biden spoke about the horrific death toll at a virtual covid summit with other world leaders on thursday and he said each victim has left behind many loved ones who will never see them again. there is still so much left to do. it will pandemic isn t over.