"the real problem" for the U.S. hospital system is that "we have so many people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not yet been vaccinated." differential diagnoses and inadequate clinical therapies.
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the country has been battered by an unrelenting waveCOVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 mutations and variations that have left many Americans emotionally exhausted, dispirited and worried about infections surviving COVID-19 health care in and discharge from hospital

With the threat that rising infections could worsen the supply chain challenges facing the United States and fuel inflation, [said] Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo.

The administration is expecting a series of breakthrough [vaccine or antiviral] infections[!] with the surge of holiday travelers. Fauci said most people who have been vaccinated and gotten a booster should be fine if they take precautions

Fauci told NBC he saw the variants coming and he thought [Kamala?!] Harris' statement "was taken a bit out of context," adding he believed she was referring to "the extraordinary number of mutations [alpha,  delta, gamma, lamda, omicron] ... particularly with omicron. No one had expected it that much but we were well-prepared and expected that we were going to see variants."