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Been in any previous point. he had the audacity to run over there and blame president biden. >> he said he was going to end covid. he hasnt done that. were the first state to start the treatment centers. having great success with that. that should have been a bigger plan, bigger part of this whole response from the beginning. >> you heard that right. he said florida is great success. we should all be like florida. well, today, florida reported a single day record for new cases. more than 27,000....

Beds that the hospital. this is a small rural hospital. right now they have 15 covid patients needing icu care. so what does that look like? when we were on the floor of the emergency room, we saw two different rooms where they had covid patients intubated, doubled up in the rooms that they need to be. but there is no room for them upstairs. there are three icu nurses working to take care of eight icu covid patients in the icu here, all of them on ventilators. they have three nurses in their eme...

Respiratory virus, that is the great unknown. the combination of those viruses combined with the stress of covid. what were seeing in portland is what were seeing across the country in icus. rationing of care. dialysis machines, nurses and respiratory therapists and even advanced therapies like ecmo. >> so ellison, i honestly thought that this was a typo. you are at a rural mississippi hospital. it is 185% overcapacity? how do you even deal with that? >> reporter: it is really challenging. dr. g...

He got it as soon as he possibly could get it. he pointed that out at a rally the other night saying you should get it, he was booed. and governor abbott, putting in the restrictions, hes been vaccinated. he contracted covid and said the reason i tolerated it well is because i have the vaccine. many people signaling to the base are actually taking these protections and precautions themselves. and what were seeing play out is that the people punished for this are doctors and nurses in these overw...

Tube. >> reporter: here at ohsu hospital in portland, more than a dozen critically ill patients fill the held icu. all but one are unvaccinated. >> theres always a nurse kind of right here ready to intervene. >> reporter: people from all over the pacific sea board come here to ohsu to get medical treatment from alaska to idaho to montana. >> our physicians are just being called at every opportunity, can you take this patient, can you help with consults on this patient. this patient is 26 and dyi...

South but you mentioned alabama was out of icus and idaho is, too. how do we get ahead of this? by trying to, again, mitigate the spread through vaccination, wearing our mask and trying not to make not only a local containment but a global containment. even giving boosters across the globe will greatly help us to get ahead of covid-19. >> so tell me, i read a lot about this and i still dont quite understand this, does this tell us anything about how effective the vaccine or the booster is agains...

A saturation point in messaging. sounds like shes not going to talk about getting vaccinated. do you think that from a medical point of view is good public policy? >> its really painful to hear that from where i stand because like in many other states were struggling here to just figure out who we let in next off a very long waiting list for icu beds that are just running out. across the country last week one in five icus were at 95% capacity. this week one in four icu beds are at 95 capacity or...

For all of our icus in the state, i was on call two weekends ago on the rural part of the big island. i had a gentleman fully vaccinated, he did not have covid, 74 years old, but he had a big heart attack. it took me many hours to transfer him to a facility where he could get cardiology care. another woman who is younger, in her early 40s, he has a diagnosis now of breast cancer. because were so full in our hospitals, weve had to suspend all of our elective procedures. that woman cant get the ma...

About my son and my wife getting it. it was quite a stressful experience. >> what is the message from this? so many kids are ending up in icus now. people still arent getting the message. youve got a big problem. >> we do. it was an interesting experiment that didnt happen because we expected it to be that way, but we have 19-year-old and 14-year-old children. my 19-year-old is getting ready to go off to college. she was out of the house. when he came back home, he kept his mask on. he said im g...

Week alone. meanwhile, a new vaccine mandate is in effect for the largest public school system in the nation. new york city mayor bill de blasio announcing all nyc department of education staff must have at least one vaccine dose by september 27th. no exceptions. lets bring in nbcs morgan chesky from hard-hit houston. stephanie gosk is in new york city. and dr. mario ramirez is an emergency physician and former pandemic and emerging threats coordinator at the hhs office of global affairs. so mor...