Her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani (al-Sheikh), was seriously injured when the Israeli strike hit the family home in Rafah, the southernmost city in the besieged Gaza Strip, on Saturday night.
safe. i won t allow the teachers union to politicize the surge or pandemic in general. people are nervous, they re scared, i get that. the thing to do is to lean into the facts and the science and not abandon them in a panic. joining me now is nbc news correspondent meghan fitzgerald in chicago, nbc news senior business correspondent stephanie ruhle, and dr. natalie azar from the nyu langone school. we ve seen restaurants, stores, manufacturing companies that are dealing with massive amounts of cases, reinstating mask policies at some of these places to tamp down on it. then there s the police shortages, the fire shortages, the hospital shortages. this is a i don t want to even say involuntary shutdown for a lot of the industry in this country but that s
hospitals. this comes of course as a majority of oregon adults have been vaccinated but only roughly 35% have been boosted, which may be part of the numbers here, and of course, this is one of many states calling in the national guard to help with hospital shortages. we ve seen california, new jersey and oregon do this very same thing, chris. again, california also facing those staffing shortages so state officials announced a policy change that apparently has the health care industry a little bit up in arms. give us the details on that. yes, the idea that we would get to a place where california department of public health officials are saying where you are positive as a health worker, but asymptomatic, then you may be able to come to work. that s a new threshold. the emergency policy is designed to hopefully keep the staffing shortages from overwhelming the system. california department of public