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As were looking at this, what do you think of the legislature taking those steps and what do you think could come out of it. >> i think a lot could come out of it. the bottom line is trying to figure out how we could actually get to a point where we could take care of these surges, take care of the sick patients coming into icus. let not forget that we have specialized care being offered in the icus. these nurses and these icu physicians have spent years taking care of patients. so if they are m...

>> i support the ability for local districts to make decisions on this. we did this last year, i was commissioner of a state last year and we opened schools by working well together. communicating regularly, we are prepared, department of education to work with every state and governor to do what we can to support their safe reopening. we have done a lot of department in terms of happndbooks and guidance. we need to keep our constituents safe and number one, learn ng the classroom. they suffered...

Icus in the state of iowa. theyre all full. >> you said this is like walking a marathon, and not knowing where the end is. what inspired you to post that video so everyone could see what youre dealing with? >> i felt like -- um -- after a long week of struggling to find normal solutions for people. i had met a really nice couple who were in the early phases of covid but you could just see where their illness was going to go because they were both very high risk. and i -- i just wanted to know wh...

Thats the solution. >> reporter: but after labor day weekend saw big crowds and thousands packed into football stadiums, health officials are bracing for more outbreaks. >> i dont think its smart. i think when youre dealing particularly, you know, outdoors is always better than indoors, but even when you have such a congregant setting of people close together, first, you should be vaccinated and when you do have congregant settings, particularly indoors, you should be wearing a mask. >> reporter...

Take care of other patients, isnt it? i mean, its not just covid patients who are coming into the i.c.u. who are coming into the emergency room. people may have, you know, appendicitis, there may have been a car accident. what happens to all of those folks? >> well, you know, it turns out that before covid, our i.c.u.s were pretty busy. its because people were having car accidents and heart attacks and needing complicated surgery and going to the i.c.u. afterwards. those people are being put on ...

For the speech tomorrow. hospitals are struggling. in alabama there are 181 more i.c.u. patients than there are formally staffed beds. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard joining us now with more. j jacqueline, where do these overflow patients go when they need i.c.u., but there is no i.c.u. staff to take care of them? >> reporter: erica, that is what many communities are facing. when we have vaccine available for people, it is incredibly sad and incredibly scary to see i.c.u. beds filling u...

Top of this pandemic. something else you said in there is its the number of staffed beds that were running into problems with. and right now the reason why youll see health care workers out there beating the drums and shouting from the rooftops, get your vaccine, its because we dont have enough staffing to take care of people that are continuously getting infected and coming in because theyre not vaccinated. so please, please, get those vaccines. we need to keep our health care workers on the jo...

Cnns tom foreman is here with a closer look at those numbers. what are they telling us, tom. >> well, jim, theyre saying exactly what you pointed out there. this is the result of people not getting vaccinated. not wearing masks. the minute i finish, ill put a mask back on. look at icus. more than 94% is the dark red, more than 70% is all of the other red. icus are designed to not have a lot of empty beds if they can avoid it. they do not want to be in a situation like this. thats because of covi...

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And current thought is that with a third dose, we may get a very durable and much higher immunity from a third dose without having to think right now about, you know, doses every several months. i would not, you know, at all jump to that conclusion. >> that would be great if the third one is what we need and it does it. youve got, you know, tragedy playing out in so many icus across america. i was just looking at the data from yesterday in eight states, many of them in the south, youve got 90% o...