happy new year. meanwhile, as the administration is weighing its options hospitals are fighting a wave of coronavirus cases so severe they re running out of beds. i talked to joseph farone about this and here s what he had to say. there are no people around that can take care of these patients and that is a problem. the problem is most patients don t know if they have delta or omicron and they re flooding emergency departments. this will be collateral damage for those people that truly need to go to the e.r., your heart attacks and strokes. it is a pain our next guests are all too familiar with. their father dale, a retired iowa school superintendent waited 15 days at a bed that his hospital could not spare because it was so overwhelmed with unvaccinated coronavirus patients. tragically, dale died in late november. nearly one month after he had been diagnosed with sepsis, an