increase by more than 50%. the situation has reached a very real crisis in alabama. the hard-hit state has started using mobile trailers to store bodies for the first time since the pandemic began because so many people are dying so quickly. joining me now is dr. kierstin kennedy chief of medicine. dr. kennedy, i just want to start, what is it like on the ground right now, what are you seeing in a state with low vaccination rates. and the public health official saying yesterday clearly this is a crisis. what are you seeing on the ground? good morning, i ve been a faculty member here for a little over ten years and i ve never seen anything like this. i realize all of our medical units have become covid unit and same or the icus. we re spilling over into the cardiac icus, the neural icus.