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Happy Holidays, everyone!

This is America Dissected.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul El Sayed.

The Holidays are a promise.

Chances are you're getting ready for time away from the usual grind, spending it instead

with friends or family.

But the holidays are also a time to reflect, to think a bit about the year that's passed

and the year that lies ahead.

So today, I wanted to step back and reflect on 2022.

We kicked off with the pandemic's worst search as Omicron and its many nefarious cousins set

records in daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, accounting for more COVID deaths

than all the variants that came before it.

As we emerged from Omicron in the spring, everyone was over.

We saw governments big and small rush to take down COVID precautions like masks and vaccine

mandates, and yet we continued to watch as hundreds of people die of COVID every single day.

But COVID wasn't the only major story in health and health care this year.

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