The State of Omicron in Hospitals

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 10, 2022

Craig Spencer, New York City emergency medicine physician and director of global health in emergency medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, describes the landscape of omicron infection in New York City hospitals, from "incidental infections" to staff shortages caused by doctors and nurses having to isolate after testing positive.

→"As an E.R. Doctor, I Fear Health Care Collapse More Than Omicron" (NYTimes, Jan. 10)

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