cnn s miguel marquez joins us live. miguel, you have been there. you re back. what s changed? look, it s a theme that we have heard not only here in kentucky but across the country. they have gotten damn good during this pandemic. they have hraefrpbd to do a lot more with a lot less and done it on the fly. all of that comes at a price. owingsville, kentucky. the coronavirus, rolling stills, a heavy burden for health care workers. i have held the hands of people dying of covid. i have been within the covid ward. i ve had close friends lose their lives even at my age. i ve had somebody, like i say, who was a mom to me, lose her battle. there s not words of what experiencing right now at the health care forefront. reporter: dr. banks is the
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their lives even at my age. i ve had, i ve had somebody see their mom lose her battle. there s just not words to what we re experiencing right now at the health care forefront. reporter: dr. parker banks is the physician at saint can claire health care s clinic care. the battle now, the highly infectious omicron variant. more patients and some days less staff. it definitely puts a strain on the system, on an already strained system. so right now we have probably a 40% reduction in staff currently today due to covid or covid exposure. with that, everybody else here has to pick up a significant amount. reporter: at saint claire s main hospital in moore head where we visited in september, health care workers are still battling the virus and false information. i think a lot of our patients just need to be able to be talked to. let them know the truth. talk to them and answer their questions because a lot of them