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And were boarding people there, taking care of people who really need the icu beds that you mentioned are in such short supply. right now our icus are mostly filled with people who require to be on a ventilator. and that means were taking care of some incredibly sick patients in the rooms outside of the icu. these are people who could use an icu bed, but at this point, the bar is so high to get into the icu, you really need to be on a ventilator. and that is a very stressful situation for famili...

And was turned away from 43 hospitals fwlauz wabecause ther space. at what point will there be a broadening rationing of care and whats the future for alabama? >> thank you for having me. i think you ask a challengieing question for us all. cases are plateauing. if you look at some data, potentially dropping. it doesnt remove the challenge we face in our icus and patient who is come to our e.r.s do receive care. its obviously challenge by the fact we have so many covid patients in our hospital. ...

Maybe not the one next to your house but maybe within a 20-mile radius and get care. his story is unfortunately incredibly sad and tragic, just heartbreaking. and were seeing that play out. this is not an isolated event. most of our emergency departments in the state are really overwhelmed. and were boarding people there, taking care of people who really need the icu beds that you mentioned are in such short supply. right now our icus are mostly filled with people who require to be on a ventilat...

Expect that we as a community, especially medical community can care for each other. if your father, like mr. demonia, is in need of acute care because hes having a cardiac emergency, you assume, in a normal world. where we do take care of each other, that you can actually go to an emergency department, maybe not the one next to your house, but maybe within a 20-mile radius and get care, his story is unfortunately incredibly sad, and tragic, and its heartbreaking, and we are seeing that play out...

Hospitals and icus. unfortunately, nothing more can be done to save some people. >> we will worship together, we will have congregational singing, and we can do that without the government interfering. >> reporter: a popular denver pastor and conservative radio show host passed away from covid. he was a vaccine skeptic a husband and wife in california dying just weeks apart, leaving behind five children, including a newborn baby. now, just another sign of how infectious this delta variant is. se...

Hospitals at extraordinary numbers. and this has a lot of collateral impact. what were seeing is our icus are getting overrun across the midsection of the country. nurses are getting exhausted. other hospital staff, doctors are leaving their post. so, this is causing instability in other ways. those who are defying getting vaccinating continue to get angrier. so, this is a period of great instability for our nation. >> no hope. all right. >> theres always hope. >> its a bleak picture. >> well, t...

To mandate vaccines could be followed by many districts nationwide >> theyve done a great job trying to keep our kids educated and reopening schools in a safe way. >> reporter: the decision met with widespread but not full support from parents. >> it should be left up to the parents to make this decision >> reporter: with the white house pushing for mandatory vaccinations for all school employees, the cdc notes the unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to die from the disease in just the last mo...

Group, which because of their social patterns is transmitting a lot and this more infectious delta variant, not to mention that kids under 12 still have not yet been vaccinated, is really driving this surge among the pediatric population. >> okay. lets turn to that new study you may have heard me read with emphasis, but it is from the cdc and it found that unvaccinated people are 11 times more likely to die from the virus. how can health officials effectively get this statistic out, and do you t...

Understand the importance here. it is also about equity. we have seen that communities of color have been hit hardest during the pandemic. students of color and low income students are the ones who have fallen the most behind as a result of the move to virtual learning, so it is really to help also ensure that students can stay in the classroom and we dont have more of those losses in their education. >> okay. what about the record rise in covid infections among children? i mean kids, yes, they ...

World we want to move, forward we have to do that. the president was very firm, about where the resistance, i think theres always some legitimate restrictions to vaccination and drugs, but the president was very, clear a lot of this is politicized. does this make a difference? is it going to stop making people sit there and say im gonna get vaccinated? >> i think it is ali, if we go to other countries where they had something similar, france, italy, greece. parts of the uk. ireland. where these ...