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"Did you commit to stopping your crackdown against Alexei Navalny? This is the prison colony for Alexi Navalny has been in turn. Can you see these guards or waiting for us? We can't even register to be here. Are you happy with your president? It's very interesting question. I can't tell you the truth. Would you take this opportunity to apologize to the people of Belarus for the human rights abuses that they've suffered at your hands? Is there a chance that the Russians could be planning an invasion of course? There's very little sign of any side backing down. It's got blasted with a water cannon. We can't go any closer. There could be some interception by the Russians. Oh, good. As rotten forces fall back their troops, they're reading naval forces for the Visa and deployed. We've got to run for it right. Yes, come on, let's go. Matthew chance, CNN the world sport, I'm Alex Thomas. This is CNN. Coronavirus surging all across the United States and I fueled by the omicron variant. The daily number of new cases topping 400,000 for the first time, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. hospitalized with COVID. The White House saying that President Biden will make brief remarks tomorrow on the rapid spread of omicron. Also tonight, the former president and two of his children, Ivanka and Don Junior, moving to quash subpoenas issued by the New York State attorney general who's investigating the Trump organization. And after deliberating over 7 days, the jury reaching a verdict tonight, the fraud conspiracy trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of theranos. But first CNN's Alexandra field has the latest on the spike in COVID-19 cases. If you look at the upstream, it is actually almost the vertical increase. Amid a tsunami of new COVID cases the daily average topping 400,000 for the first time, the FDA making major moves to add layers of protection, authorizing booster shots for kids ages 12 to 15, shortening the window between the initial doses of a vaccine and the booster shot for everyone from 6 months to 5 and authorizing a third dose of vaccine for some immunocompromised children between the ages of 5 and 11. All that as the omicron surge brings with it a growing number of hospitalizations more than a 100,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 for the first time in nearly four months, but even that stark figure is lower than we've seen during other surges. The one group that that may be a problem for is very young kid, very young children, toddlers, who have trouble with upper airway infections, and we are seeing rising hospitalizations among that pediatric segment. The school districts across the country now struggling with how to bring students safely back to school, 5 metro Atlanta schools going remote for the first week of the new year, while Seattle, Chicago, and D.C. schools delay their start dates to allow time for more testing. But the largest district in the nation, New York City schools is bringing students back to class, with a new mayor committing to in person learning. We're not sending an unclear message of what is going to happen day to day. I'm going to tell you what's going to happen day to day. We are saying open. It's part of a shift being seen in more of the country toward finding ways to coexist with COVID. Crowds filling stadiums for holiday bowl games, the NFL and NBA easing restrictions on players last week after so many cancellations and delays. But there are still consequences of the crushingly high case count, and it isn't business as usual. New York City coping with a staffing shortage among first responders by instructing emergency medical services not to transport most stable patients with flu like symptoms. The headaches for air travelers intensifying a mix of staff and shortages and winter weather now, causing another 2100 cancellations today. Alexandra field, CNN, New York. All right, Alexandra, thank you very much for that. I want to bring in now doctor Rashida Bassett McCain. A medical director at Baylor college of medicine and doctor James Phillips assistant professor at George Washington university hospital. Good evening to both of you. So glad to have you both on. Doctor bessette mechanic going to start with you. We're seeing an unprecedented surge in cases. Hospitalizations are the highest that they have been since September. Tell us what you're seeing at your hospital, please? We are feeling it here in Houston. We are not immune to the surge. Beds are full hospital beds are full emergency department beds are full. Patients are boarding in the emergency department for a prolonged period of time, definitely seeing unvaccinated patients that are getting very, very sick from omicron. You say that any infectious symptoms are runny nose, a sneeze, anything is COVID until proven otherwise. Absolutely. I've seen a lot of talk about people trying to differentiate between a common cold, the flu and COVID. People, this is not for you to do at home. Get a test if your head hurts. If you have a fever, if you have muscle aches, runny nose, whatever it is, it's not your allergies. It's not a cold, it's COVID until you have a test saying otherwise. And the tests at home at every other day in my house, there is someone who's testing and ordering online. Doctor Phillips, you're warning that hospitals across the country need to be prepared. Tell us what your ER is dealing with and does the rest of the country need to, what is the rest of the country we need to do to prepare? Hey, Donna. It's good to see you again. And I'll tell you, we're in the midst of two pandemics. And it's being said more and more. It really does depend on if you're infected with omicron versus delta and what's most prevalent in your community. Now, what we're seeing in Washington, Washington, D.C., where I think until today we've been sort of the global. Can I stop you right there, doctor? And then let you go on. So what is the difference? What do you say, what's the difference between omicron and delta? I'm getting there. I promise. Okay. So looking at places like New York and Washington, D.C., where the majority, the majority of the patients that we're seeing right now, are omicron clinically. Now, when we look at, say, the statewide statistics of all 50 states. There are clearly states that have not had that upward tick. That is coming. And we can safely say that they're not seeing their omicron surge yet. Now, in the cities where omicron is the preeminent that the primary variant that we're seeing, we are overloaded, but it's mostly with patients with mild illness who are crowding the emergency departments. Those patients like has been adopted by EMS in New York City need to be told they need to stay home and find alternative testing that is outside of the emergency department. In places where delta is still the primary variant though, those patients are coming in with pneumonia, which we're not seeing in omicron. And those patients are real emergency department patients that still need to be seen and should be transported. So delta, do you think it's a much more severe variant, a much more dangerous variant?
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"department bed" Discussed on As It Happens from CBC Radio
"Paul olshansky is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the university of schedule want he also works as an emergency physician in saskatoon primarily at royal university hospital. We reached him in saskatoon. Dr olshansky can described some of what you have seen in your emergency rooms in recent weeks as co vid surges in. Gotcha one you know. I think we started to notice that. We're heading towards some bad Trouble probably as early as early august we start to notice increasing in sustained surges. And we we looked around and could see that our patients who are being admitted from the emergency room for example. We're not moving upstairs to the hospital. Wards because there was simply no capacity for them upstairs the patient wards and the volumes just continued and continued it. Got to the point. Where i'd for example show up works i. Would you know see that there were no no emergency department beds to see patient and no rooms to see them in and so we make our way to the waiting room and i remember being struck. One time i come into the waiting room to look through the charts and there are people sitting like cross legged on the floor because not only is the waiting room full but there are even not enough chairs for everyone and so some people are now sitting and it. Just it's such a bizarre thing to see in a tertiary hospital. You know this is supposed to be the hospital for the northern half of our entire province and it's not just the people that are coming in as as as it always is is not just people who are suffering with symptoms of cova. This is everything right from broken limbs to more serious things of life threatening things right absolutely. We continue to have kids fall off bikes and break their arms. We continue to have people have heart attacks. we continue to deal with mental health challenges and crises. So everything that we've been managing continues to kind of continue can come through our doors and now we are increasingly dealing with This additional case burden of patients getting very sick with covert twin lifted all of its public health measures on july the eleventh so now two months down the line how would you rate that decision. Well if we look at the statistics if we look at our numbers clearly. It didn't work. If the expectation was that that would motivate people to get vaccinated because they were it was up to them now than it. It clearly did not succeed. We are dealing with one of the lowest oxidation rates in the country. We have probably close to three hundred thousand people some of them. Children are ineligible for vaccine. Who are currently being exposed to this virus at alarming rates with alarming levels in section and more concerning almost instep alarming levels of hospitalization for adults. Thirty forty fifty years of age or becoming critically. Ill from this virus and i think the most i think one of the very frustrating things about all of this is that and i think we're seeing play next door and elbert as well. It's one thing to say you've got a plan that you expect people to get vaccinated as misguided as i think that was. That was the decision but in the face of overwhelming evidence that suggests that that it was a failed plan to continue to ignore pleas from healthcare professionals from our medical health officers like from all of us across the board to just ignore pleas to institute some basic public health measures like indoor masking. You know it just. It's it's really tough to sit back and watch. And he has not implemented again the indoor masking but he has reinstated a few things right. I mean the isolation requirements. Some health services have been reduced and an order to redeploy. Healthcare workers has been invoked. So d- does it indicate it all the premium might be listening to your message. oh I mean there's so many things i would i would like just directly. Ask if i could but i mean i. I don't think no. I don't think there are signs of a. I don't believe that advice from mcconnell officers and from the medical community is being listened to. And i i think i i. Would you know going back to the specific examples you gave. I mean even essentially this idea that there was no there's no public health order to even compel people who are sick with the virus to stay home. I mean that is. That's such a bizarre thing that the fact that that ever even happened in the first place is against any kind of evidence or intuitive even response to something like this until the fact that we now have a public health load around self-isolation in a positive case. I think just is again just a slow return towards some level of normalcy or or evidence when it comes to managing this virus These other measures. I mean they won't do anything to curb the spread of this virus enacting emergency legislation. That's gonna move your workforce. I mean i think that's the analogy would be It's you know summer of twenty twenty one. There's drought throat western canada. Fires are raging. We're going to redeploy personnel to fight the fires. But we're going to do nothing about the people running around starting the fires. You know basic fire ban right so a mask mandate would go so far and i think that's part of what makes us so much harder is now you're now you're taking away choice and autonomy from care providers you're making them working extremely difficult conditions and what would make it a little more bearable. I think is if we knew that our friends our community our neighbors were in it with us and at least doing something like masking universal masking and and moving towards things like that team reputation. Then then it it makes it. It makes it a little more bearable. I think but when we are kind of just basically being told you know we're not going to do anything to slow the fires down. We're not going to decrease them. We're just gonna expect you to work harder. I think that that is Really disheartening what's it like for you and your colleagues. I mean there's a nurse today who said that. She is ready to throw in the towel. After two decades of working how demoralizing is all this for you. Yeah it's it is it is i mean. I think everyone experiences this a little bit differently. But i think the the the themes that keep coming up our Frustration feeling abandoned. I think even for some people feeling betrayed. Feeling as if we've been left to just deal with this this human tragedy because ultimately we are seeing people suffer so this is the suffering continues. And and i guess it's being displaced. There moved on from one patient population to another. So you know. It's the people who are waiting for care right now. Who are being forced to carry the weight of this. And and and deal with the consequences of this unmitigated. Fourth wave and i and it's heartbreaking to be a witness to that doctor ocean ski. I know you have lots of work to do. And i appreciate at work that you're doing and i thank you also for speaking with us today. Thank you for giving me the opportunity. Paul shinsegi is an emergency physician. He's also chair of the emergency medicine. Section at saskatchewan medical association..