rise along with lingering covid cases. officials estimate there have already been 13 million cases of flu so far season, and cases remain high or moderate throughout most of the country. dr. jeanette nesheiwat is a fox news medical contributor and founder of bc boost.comment dr. nesheiwat, is it typical to have this many viruses sweeping the country? that s a great question, jon. what we re seeing and especially what i m seeing with my patients, for example, today, confluence of a multitude of circulating viruses. we have rsv, we have coronavirus, we have influenza virus. those are just a few to name. there s actually many, many others that are circulating as well, they re just so common we don t test for them. and all these viruses and some bacterialen infections are hitting and peaking at the same time, so it creates a challenge for the health care system especially if there s a shortage of nurses, doctors, you know, x-ray techs, this that sort of thing. rsv, for example, this prim
example in hospitals, one of the issues, sometimes a shortage of hospital staff, x-ray techs, doctors and nurses, but the isolation and quarantine period has been put down. the c.d.c. effort to reduce the economic damage and help preserve the workforce. ultimately despite the number of high cases i think we are moving in the right direction. we are in a better place now than we were last year. we have just a third of the deaths now that we had last year. even though the cases are going up, and even the hospitalizations, they are higher now but still much less than what we saw last year this time. sandra: the new york governor talking about the hospitalizations in the state yesterday, listen. is that person in the hospital because of covid or show up there and are routinely tested and showing positive and they may have been asymptomatic or even just had the sniffles. someone is in a car accident,
patients that were going to be needed to transferred to our facility. eve an level one trauma center would be overwhelmed with ten critically ill patients potentially arriving in a short period of time. so we have a mass casualty situation where there s basically a phone tree where we get additional people to come in and help out in the emergency department. it s extra nurses, therapists, x-ray techs, even cleaning crew called to help out in addition to a few extra surgeons. it was my job as the attending on-call to provide triage. somebody has to know exactly how many patients are in the emergency department or en route at any one time and make a decision as to which one is the most critically ill and requires immediate use of our not-unlimited resources.
analysts, all kind of different computer engineering jobs. health care, we hear all the time about these high-end jobs in health care. some need a lot of specialized training and the big bulk of jobs created in health care are very low-skill, low-wage jobs, which is concerning if you re trying to find a foot out of manufacturing and into health care. right. but there ask does remain that solid middle that requires something beyond high school, below college, and a lot of the technical jobs, the lab techs, x-ray techs, phlebotomists and my sense given with the age structure, pa what the population looks like, a lot of action going forward. that s a pretty good bet. a lot of access. the question is, how do we match the skills of people with the jobs open? more than 3 million job openings right now in america. 15 million out of work. but 3 million job openings. when i ask ceos, why aren t you hiring? you have jobs open, but i can t find the people with the right skills. now, how do yo