by it and certainly the administration will also focus on curving the spread of it if it does make its way here to u.s. thank you so much for your excellent reporting staying on top of this fast moving story. joining me with more on the merging threat of omicron, primary care specialist and public health expert. welcome. thank you so much for being with us. thank you sdp. it seems how much protection will the vaccines provide against the variant. we heard a lot about dozens of mutations on the spike proteins. can you translate that for lay folks and how much do we know about the protection people may have if they have been vaccinated. i take the whole position we shouldn t panic just yet. the most important thing is to study the virus. just because it s more contagious, doesn t necessarily
and deliver this baby, follow me. oh! okay, i m a little nervous, okay? it s my first delivery. brenda: okay. so that may be funny, but this is no joke. another doctor shortage, this time in florida. gary b, what s causing this? well, brenda it starts with the very first doctor you see and that s the primary care specialist. you don t need to look further than massachusetts which of course was the model, at least in some camps they say, of obamacare, they face a shortage, brenda, not only in primary care specialty, but in eight specialties across the board. it s estimated by health care that by 2014, 7 million americans will have trouble finding a primary care physician. the reason, primary care, which is kind of the tip of the iceberg here, they re the
department in ours and most urban emergency departments, we divided it to urgent care centers and emergency departments, and we can handle both without competing with each other. but clearly there are more cost effective ways of delivering nonemergent care. access as alluded to, at fordable care act will drive that in that there will be more people who have insurance, have access will want screening tests, all which is go ahead down the road it will prevent more serious illnesses and costly medical expenses, but nothing to cover that right now no provisions in the affordable care act to grow more doctors and more providers. incidentally, other help along the way as long as we know how to utilize it along the way. we have p.a.s, nurse practitioners. a primary care specialist that works with an mp can deliver much more effective care to many more people. models have not been fully