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And ill praise him from now on. >> reporter: shes getting everything but the ventilator and improving. the 66-year-old great grandmother from the small town of olive hill, kentucky, said she and her husband talked about getting vaccinated but decided against it. >> do you have any idea where you got covid? >> yes. my granddaughter had gotten sick and it just went to everybody. >> reporter: kentucky releasing the biggest covid surge yet. cases and hospitalizations spi spiking sharply. deaths too,...

So i just want to warn everybody. >> reporter: kentucky seeing its biggest covid-19 surge yet, cases and hospitalizations spiking sharply to levels never seen before. deaths too on the rise. hospitals everywhere just trying to keep up. >> it is defeating to put another person on the ventilator, defeating to watch a health care provider that i care about or myself stand at the bedside when someone dies alone, it is also defeating to watch somebody else get put in a body bag. >> reporter: and st. ...

Pray. >> god has brought me to where i am right now. and i praise him from now. >> reporter: shes getting everything but the ventilator and improving, the 66-year-old great grandfather from the small town of olive hill, kentucky, said she and her husband talked about getting vaccinated but decided against it. >> reporter: do you have any idea where you got covid? >> yes. my granddaughter had gotten sick and it went through one and everybody. seemed like at the house. >> reporter: kentucky seeing...

Approved and the cdc advisory committee makes a recommendation. >> reporter: this as the number of kids infected with the virus is on the rise. a new report from the american academy of pediatrics and the childrens hospital association found children make up one in five new covid cases, and between late june and mid-august, numbers from the cdc show hospitalization rates for kids and teens increased five-fold. >> we know certainly more children are getting infected and therefore more are getting...

Manu? >> nadia, stay safe and keep us posted. 1200 deaths a day to covid-19 in the u.s. mississippi nurse pleads to her community to get vaccinated. >> its frustrating. its infuriating. its very taxing on the staff to have compassion. of course, we still do at the bedside. you just want to scream and beg and plead for these people. the ones that are in here are unvaccinated.

Im a pro-life, pro-gun, conservative republican. governor lee in tennessee is one of the most compassionate people i know. i do believe that our governors are all trying to do what they believe is best. i also believe as a ceo of a health system, i have a responsibility to advocate for our nurses and our doctors, who are frankly fatigued, theyre overwhelmed and its a threat to the public if our nurses begin to develop ptsd and other things that lead them to departing the bedside, then the public...

Detective was trying to understand why the 38 year old woman had died suddenly. as he looked for clues inside korea level aces home, filled with the clutter of young family life, jeff noticed one item in particular, a white cup on her bedside. >> i collected an unknown liquid, it smelled faintly of alcohol from the styrofoam cup. the >> detective asked her husband, curtis, what it was. >> did he tell you that you like to have ivanka tonic? >> yes. >> and that is likely what was in at the start? ...

>> joshua, i have deployed my icu reservist capacity to the air force to other parts of the country. i practice here in seattle. what i have seen is everything we have been saying is true. i have seen it since late march that younger, otherwise healthy people are in my intensive care unit in ways in which i never saw in 2020. so that message is cutting through. what i am seeing and hearing from colleagues in texas and in parts of arizona, which i have directly seen at the bedside, is that we are...

So that message is cutting through. what i am seeing and hearing from colleagues in texas and in parts of arizona, which i have directly seen at the bedside, is that we are rationing care. one message that has not gotten out clearly to people is that advanced therapies in the icu, joshua. things like ecmo where we actually oxygenate peoples blood outside their body. its really rare but it can be lifesaving. those therapies are being rationed. icu beds now in parts of texas are being rationed. so...

Staff into the hospitals at the bedside. they are bringing staff in from other states. they are using contracted staffing. some hospitals had to convert auditoriums, cafeterias to meet patient demand. but it is why we felt so strongly about producing these public service announcements. we need people to get vaccinated. what is so heart breaking is that these hospitalizations for those unvaccinated are preventable. the loss of life for those who are in their 20s and 30s is preventable. we need th...