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Care workers are out this week due to covid exposure. >> i think the only thing that can make things worse is to act like this is not happening. if you went out and got a vaccine today, its not going to help us for weeks but it would be a start. >> thanks to cnns dan simon for that report. at this point the trend is undeniable. hospitals in areas with low vaccination rates are struggling with shortages in resources, staff, bed space and the impact is especially being felt in the southeast. lis...

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Masks are not required unlike where at a nearby charter school. what are you hearing about the contrast there in that community? >> thats right, andrea. to be clear, the reopening plan for this school district explicitly says that masks are not required but after a contentious board meeting last night, thats been updated to say that masks are strongly encouraged, but still, not required. that just underscores the divide that you have in the community where theres a resistance to masking, but you...

More than 2500 people in the hospital with covid and that is an all-time high for the entire pandemic in that state. patients in icu and on ventilators also at the highest number yet. the governor is deploying hundreds more national guards troops to help at hospitals across the state that are now nearing a breaking point. zw joining me now is dr. will milan from saintclair health care in moorhead, kentucky. thanks for being here. when i spoke with the governor last week he pointed to your hospit...

Is so high here, look at the positivity rate. one in four people that get a test are turning back with a positive result. the increase in cases turns into the increase in hospitalizations at a time when doctors are saying hospitals are full. they feel like theyve reached the limit at this point. you have hospitals turning hallways and classrooms into additional bed space to increase their capacity. there is also the struggle to fill open positions, hundreds of positions open right now so youre h...

We really need people to get vaccinated and to wear a mask when theyre in public but indoors. >> ill talk about masks in just one second. if some of your hospitals are to the place of needing to close down surgical rooms to make more space for icu needs, are hospitals at a point in your state where doctors are having to make tough choices about rationing care? >> at the moment were still able to move patients from one hospital to another, but we are right at or quickly approaching that point. we...

Joining me now is public health writer and researcher at the university of st. mary, amber. you said georgia could be at risk of a regional hospital system collapse if the current trends continue. what would that even look like? >> well, what it would mean is that, you know, hospitals are unable to provide the care that they could normally provide to patients. so lives that could ordinarily be saved might not be possible because there just isnt enough bed space, there isnt enough staff. and so, ...

When we look at the deaths that weve had over the past four days, i want to do a little bit of a dive. weve lost four healthy people in their 20s, two of whom were pregnant, zero vaccinated. >> reporter: tough numbers for some to hear. christi, you talked about the challenge of not having enough bed space. the governor here, tate reeves, says its more challenging that finding beds. in the last year more than 2,000 health care professionals across the state have left the business, so they are try...

Its jonathan lemire. could you walk us through exactly what youre seeing in the hospitals and medical facilities in your community? how overwhelmed are they? do you have enough beds, ventilators, what you need, and are you seeing, yourself stories like mika just read at the beginning of this, where people who are perhaps in their last breath talking about wishing they had the vaccine, wishing family members would get the vaccine? is that making a difference or are you still seeing people hesitan...

Back on discretionary surgeries for sometime now. were not losing space in our intensive care units to discretionary surgeries. weve been working together as a community to maximize the bed space available. we know our community, which is why local communities need the flexibility to be able to decide whats best for those communities and were going to push real hard to maintain that liberty and freedom at our local communities. >> given the delta variant, how concerned are you where things could...