lie? all of the above. you and i have talked on this program earlier, ali, about immigration. it s very, very important that we continue to bring people into this country. many, many people are dependent on fabulous doctors and others who come from over seas. it s also true that for the longer term, the pipeline has to increase. there s good news this year. we had an 18% increase in those applying to and actually getting into medical school. then thirdly, of course, the pipeline is terrific. the pathway is terrific, but that s not going to help us in the short term. so in the short term one of the things viewers can do, get vaccinated. in vaccinated, get boosted. because the unvaccinated, unfortunately, are at much, much greater risk of terrible outcomes either from omicron, said to be a milder disease, a milder variant of covid, but still something people can
actually do. what we re doing right now is doing our very best. the government has helped sending in the national guard in, in certain areas. make no mistake about it. there s no quick, easy short-term solution to this. we re going to be under stress and we have to do everything we can to protect these hospitals. david, your association, the association of american medical college tweeted january 21st on the border across the country medical students and faculty stepped in to provide basic medical care to migrants. the need enormous. part of a bigger idea you floated and we ve talked about letting advanced medical students enter the field earlier than typical. is that a long-term solution or a band-aid? well, for the terrible problems we ve had with the migrant community on the southern border, i have to say sort of a band-aid. longer term, could medical school are shorter? it s possible. there are experiments going on out there in some of our 155 medical schools, and granting inst
entire lives and concept existential threat to humanity take as toll on them. that s right. organizations like the climate psychiatry alliance, climate psychology alliance are advising other therapists to treat these issue as. don t rush them off. people are experiencing real levels of anxiety. you mentioned, this generation facing it since children and are well aware of it and that s only intensified. dealing with that psychological stress. i want to touch on something else you mentioned, ali. even if the event is happening you might see it on tv, or read about it on social media, these events, these extreme weather events and just the climate in general is impacting people in a different way. talk about nostalgia, miss home, being in our homes. a new term coaled solostalgia.