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Strain on the whole system. like you had mentioned, we had to shut down the energies, open up our post anesthesia recovery unit in order to make a second icu for more beds and we ex expanded up to 110 bed capacity, but everybody is stretched real thin. we're using all the resources we can just to try to take the best care of patients and it's getting very challenging. >> i know that things have levelled off a little bit since this spike that you just had at the end of august. but that you're concerned that moving into the school year here it's going to generate more cases. you know, as we talk...

Children's hospital association had a warning, there may not be sufficient bed capacity or expert staff to care for children almost a quarter of all covid cases reported last week were children. >> they are sicker it's more contagious, and it's a much more virulent strain. >> reporter: 3-year-old aurora cannon spent days in the icu struggling to breathe. her mom, an emergency room nurse is vaccinated, but worries she brought it home from unvaccinated patients >> it's really hard seeing what i've seen for the past 18 months and then watching my daughter go through it >> reporter: aurora has bee...

Hospitals. five states are now nearly out of icu beds, alabama, georgia, texas, florida and arkansas have less than 10% of their icu bed capacity left. the u.s. has reached a daily average of -- that rise is causing major concerns at home and abroad. it's not all bad news because daily covid shots in arms have jumped 80% since july, from 500,000 to 900,000 a day, according to the cdc. joining us is dr. natalie azar. i want to start with this, because our team in preparing to talk with you brought up the great point that we saw a spike in the u.k. from the delta variant followed by a steep drop...

Along the gulf coast for this kind of event. but we've been intensively preparing for it for the last several days, and so we were able to discharge some patients home and vacate some beds. we have good bed capacity. we brought in staff early this morning. they're all locked down here in the building as of 7:00 a.m., we literally locked the doors, and no one comes in or leaves, and so we have our patients. many of the children have their parents with them. and we have doctors and nurses and other health professionals, and we're good to go within the four walls of this building. so no matter ho...

Responders was called in to help. that was before ida. are you ready for this? if you have to have more patients coming in, more children coming in who need treatment at this point? >> we're ready. we do have bed capacity. we have the staff that we need to take care of additional children and so we'll do what we have to do. our commitment is never to turn a child away and to take care of any child or family that needs us. and about the last thing in the world we wanted at this point in time was a category 4 hurricane. but here it is. and we just have to deal with it. >> and how maxed out is th...