position. i think that the next two to eight weeks will be, as i ve said to you before, a global blizzard and of this virus. and so, i think that that we have to understand that if this were ever a time where we d want to be careful about exposing people to this virus, it s right now. and with all the travel and the holiday events taking place, i m concerned that we are going to see a a great acceleration of the transmission of this virus. dr. spencer, you are on the front lines and have been, you know, for for 18 months or 20 months or however long it s been going on. so how do you feel about it? because you are going to feel the impact of the decisions that are made the next two weeks. we are going all of us working on the front lies, healthcare providers, doctors, nurses, respiratory techs, we are all going to feel the impact of those individual decisions and, look, when we have more of our community that s had previous exposure to this virus, and/or has been vaccinate
how do you feel about it? you are going to feel the impact of the decisions made the next two weeks. all of us on the front lines. health care workers, doctors, nurses, respiratory techs will all feel the impact of the individual decisions. when we have more of our community that had previous exposure to the virus and/or has been vaccinated the likely hoo they ll get sick and see me in the emergency room is considerably lower. we want everyone to do everything they can to slow the spread of the virus and it feels almost unbelievable saying this a year after i was vaccinated and almost two years into saying this but we have a communal responsibility. our individual decisions matter. as the doctor said, getting together can be safe if we use rapid tests before hand, limit the size of our groups. if we are going to big indoor parties without masks and testing i think you ll find a lot of families as i ve seen in the past couple days with positives among them. you need to think of the
our hospitals than ever before, and the overwhelming majority are unvaccinated. the ad follows a similar plea from hospitals in minnesota earlier this month, now facing omicron, pleading for help. that part of it all feels like it was preventable. we had a level of protection that was offered that people declined, and now they re taking up beds that we know we need for other patients that need surgery for their heart disease or for their cancer, and those patients don t have access to the care that they need right now. all of us working on the front lines, health care providers, doctors, nurses, respiratory techs are going to feel the impact of those individual decisions. hospitals and emergency rooms were crowded before omicron came. we had a delta surge, we had e.r.s that are full of tired workers exhausted, not enough