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    3 nurses give their inside story on how omicron is affecting the country

    by Wynne Davis Dec 24, 2021 3 minutes
    Nurses remain under pressure as the U.S. faces another COVID winter.

    A second winter of COVID is descending upon the United States.

    This time there is widespread access to vaccines, but there's also the new omicron variant, a much more infectious form of the coronavirus that's surging.

    Health care workers in hospitals are seeing the worst of the pandemic every day. But is anything all that different with this latest variant? To find out, All Things Considered spoke with three nurses from around the country to talk about their experiences.

    Kathryn Ivey is an ICU nurse from Murfreesboro, Tenn. David Manzini is a travel nurse based in San Antonio, Texas, when

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