run a higher risk for severe illness and risk complications during pregnancy. officials in philadelphia announced this morning that the businesses across the city will need to require masks or proof of advantages flakes for employees and their customers, and florida has broken its record for the number of patients hospitalized due to covid-19. according to the database run by the department of health and human services, more than 15,000 people are currently hospitalized there for covid-19. joining me now from ocean springs, miss smis nbc news correspondent allison barber. you visited three hospitals where health care workers have seen another wave of covid-19 patients pushing them to near full capacity. what are you hearing from the frontline workers there? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, we were on an icu covid floor in this hospital yesterday, and 10 of the 12 patients were intubated while we were on the floor. two patients had their lungs collapse and they had to get