do they take that? >> horribly, and rightly so. we're doing everything that we can to expand capacity, get those folks in the operating room with their surgeons who can cure them. but at the end of the day, we're delaying their care. >> they did cpr for 45 minutes. >> reporter: as darryl got the tragic call his sister had died -- >> i was destroyed. i didn't know what's going to happen with these two beautiful children. >> reporter: he was also grappling with something else. his 71-year-old unvaccinated mother had also gotten covid and was coming out of a medically induced coma. she had to be told that her daughter, just a few rooms away, had died from the same disease. >> i got a phone call from the nurses saying get back up here. we're going to tell your mom. you need to tell your mom. we >> reporter: even now, darryl his his mother is still on the fence about the vaccine. now left to raise his niece and nephew, he says the day following his sister's death -- >> the next day i went and got my vaccination. it was the hardest decision of my life.