days to five days but only for asymptomatic with people and wearing the right kind of mask for five days following. we want to know that the airlines and rest of corporate america is focused on public health and safety and make sure they have supportive policies that help workers understand that they have the right not to come back to work if the airlines are calling them. delta announced right away, this is going to give delta more flexibility to schedule crews and we are concerned that s going to put workers in a bad position to choose whether staying home or being safe for public health or coming to work if they feel like they re going to lose their jobs if they don t. i can t help but to think having spoken to dr. jha and dr. emanuel if there were more tests available, a requirement would have been the end of those five
build up immunity through vaccines and not through infections, omnivoricron is goi make it a real challenge. when is the light at the end of the tunnel, the spring or summer? i think it s early spring or late winter. i think january is going to be a really, really hard month. people should brace themselves for a month where a lot of people going to get infected and a lot of unvaccinated people, people who have not gotten the vaccines are going to end up getting pretty sick. it s going to be disruptive. my hope as we get into february and march, infection numbers will come way down. it starts spring and the weather also gets better, that combination, late winter and early spring should be much better. give me practical guidance on masking, what types of masks and what circumstances? i wear a mask when ever i am
accurate. most cases yes, they re not going to be infectious after five days but with omniicron, w don t need many cases to begin to spread. it does require a lot of people wearing n-95 and kn-95 masks constantly for another five days and we know that s not happening very conscientiously in the united states. finally there is no tests. if you can get the results back eight to ten hours at day five and thank you knew you were negative, i would feel confident with that advise. the testing problem means you are going to make the decision of done of isolation without knowing your test status. that s not a good place to be in my humble opinion. i also wore and i will p
but if you re able to get a surgical mask or a kn-95, or best yet, an n-95, that will certainly protect you better. all right, dr. celine gander, we appreciate all that expertise. i want to bring in chief medical officer of the system. doctor, thank you for being with us today. thank you for having me, lindsay. you said pennsylvania s health system was in the brink of collapse. what are you anticipating the next couple weeks as we get into this post-holiday potential surge? we have a critical situation right now in terms of capacity. our hospitals are currently at 106% of capacity. we have icu-level patients being taken care of in other places besides the icu. we have tremendously long waits in the emergency department. we re looking for that to get