As Omicron peaks, the US healthcare system is left ‘broken beyond repair’

Despite Covid hospitalizations trending downward, 80% of hospitals across the country are under high or extreme stress'

Dr Brian Resler, an emergency physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently polled a group of doctors on an overnight shift about their jobs.

Everyone of us said if we could go back, we would choose a different career," said Resler, who spoke on the condition that the Guardian does not identify his hospital.