moderna, you have a chance of getting omicron. you might not get terribly sick. three doses is 20 times better than two doses and well within the range of neutralizing omicron. again, bottom line here, everybody dpagrees, the first t doses are the most important, and after you ve gotten that, six months get your booster, helpful against delta and omicron. because of the covid going on in the united states right now, the rates are continuing to climb, we are seeing hospital shortages, staffing shortages at hospitals, so let s take a look at what s going on in america s hospitals. so hospitalizations are up 43% from just one month ago. that is a huge jump in just one month. 85% of hospital beds are occupied in rhode island, massachusetts, and pennsylvania. nationwide, icu beds are 78% full, and one in five of those patients in the icus has
recall at the beginning of the pandemic, our personal protective equipment was made in china, we couldn t get masks or pieces for the hospital. we re seeing hospital shortages of personnel what we re talking about, all the pressure for mandates, we still have this enormous, enormous supply shortage. the ama has gotten on top of it. the fda said before the pandemic under gottlieb, look, we need more generics. we need faster approval process. let s not have the huge contracts with china, with india, where we re reliant on foreign ingredients. we need to manufacture here in the usa. we need incentives for manufacture of cheaper drugs and products here in the u.s. it has not happened. we re very, very vulnerable when there is any kind of disruption like a pandemic. pete: seems like a no-brainer, straightforward. hopefully there is political incentive in the future for someone to run on a platform like that, to make the change.
Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge
Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge
Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge