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Actually nationwide consequences, because as icus fill up, the capacity to care for patients fills up, particularly the ability to find qualified icu nurses becomes harder and harder. states like texas and florida have started searching throughout the united states for traveling nurses to fill these gaps. that has led to a nationwide shortage of icu nurses all around the country to fill these gaps in these high covid surge areas. >> in texas the governor says delay elective surgeries. it has a d...

Running out of nursing staff in e.r.s, icus and operating rooms. >> this pace is simply not sstainable. we will not have enough hospital space. we will not have enough nursing staff. >> reporter: 1,500 covid patients now streaming into hospitals, but the state tonight has just 368 icu beds available. covid patients like tim cotto have been waiting for days for an open icu bed. >> the nurse comes running out that hed gotten a bed in new mexico. we were so excited, and we celebrated, but unfortuna...

Choice, saying theyre evaluating the situation every day. but for parents who are sending their kids to school with a mask on, the problem is once their kid is through those doors, theres nothing she can do from there. its out of her hands. and to your question about how sick kids are getting, im hearing from the doctors here, theyre seeing children in the icus, theyre seeing children on ventilators, which is not something that they had been seeing prior to the last couple of weeks. theyre terri...

Now, were virtually everyone there are not vaccinated and almost everyone in our icus. were talking to the community about the fact that even if they dont get covid, if they end up on an ems, an emergency vehicle, right now theyre having trouble unloading non-covid patients in our hospitals because so much space is being taken up with covid patients. the choices people are making not to get vaccinated for themselves are not choices just for themselves. the choices theyre making to leave themselv...

What they had to say and change their mind about getting vaccinated because they are really desperate here. i met one icu nurse who is leaving the icu floor because shes been in the covid icu ward since the pandemic began and she says she simply cannot do it anymore. i also spoke to a respiratory therapist on the floor and she talked about the final minute. they want people to know if they have questions about getting vaccinated its okay to ask them, but you have to ask them to reputable people,...

From icus across the uk to create a database of treatments that worked, so the doctors in the thick of it could learn from each other at speed and save their patients. we build for the first time a picture of how disease was treated in real—time on the databases across the country. and you see all see the diversity of all the different approaches people are trying, what was working and what was not working. now this data will be used to retrain ai clinician and one day it may help to treat sep...

50s, she is in day four on the unit, she was very unwell initially. people are admitted to icus for many reasons, but sepsis tends to strike when patients are at their weakest. we literally collect every heartbeat and every breath. when you first start in intensive care, when i started, it was difficult to see what was important because there was much data. but remember, computers love data, and love spotting patterns in it. they dont get tired, and they never stop. so the doctors and computer s...

Unvaccinated. doctors here are asking people to consider getting vaccinated. when people choose not to, when theyre not relying on good information, again, from the doctors who deal with this every single day, that specialize in this, theyre seeing those people come into their icus, and theyre begging them to do whatever they can to save their lives. >> yeah, when it is too late. alison barber there. your heart has to go out to these nurses, doctors, and respiratory therapists. and theyre at the...

The worst is yet to come. it was a weakness of sick and death in mississippi. the headline is a quote from the mississippi health officer thomas dobbs, we are rapidly depleting or hospital resources, the worst is yet to come in mississippi. whos getting vaccinated. over knock, inside the front page today of the democrat gazette. after record admissions, icus down to the last eight beds. only eight intensive care units were available in the state of arkansas monday, and the hospitalizations of co...

There in the icus. we know that 11 month old had to be airlifted 150 miles because there was no room for her. give us some context, the situation there for children. >> sir, yeah, it is getting to be a truly scary situation. we -- our hospitals were already hit hard over the summer by the resurgence of other respiratory viruses, particularly rsv, and now with covid cases amongst kids on the rise theyre being hit even harder, meaning they dont necessarily have the capacity to take care of all of ...