COVID-19 cases are exploding across the state as the omicron variant surges and hospitalizations rise once again. Nurse practitioner James Q. Simmons opens up about the tremendous emotional toll of exhaustion and depression roiling California's health care workers two years into the pandemic. Plus, Dr. Catherine Blish of Stanford University gives us the skinny on fat and why people who are obese and overweight may develop some of the most severe cases of COVID-19.

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• Watch Simmons' Instagram video from a year ago