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It's jonathan lemire. could you walk us through exactly what you're seeing in the hospitals and medical facilities in your community? how overwhelmed are they? do you have enough beds, ventilators, what you need, and are you seeing, yourself stories like mika just read at the beginning of this, where people who are perhaps in their last breath talking about wishing they had the vaccine, wishing family members would get the vaccine? is that making a difference or are you still seeing people hesitant to do so? >> as far as our health care capacity goes, we are stressed. we are strained right now...

I will see you at 6:00 eastern and noon eastern. joe fryer continues our coverage. ♪ ♪ good day from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to "alex witt reports." i'm joe fryer. alex is off. here is what is happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pa civic. we begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and a live look at south dakota where bikers are garthering by the thousands for the annual sturgis motorcycle rally. bikers are coming from all around the u.s., and officials fear it has the potential to become a superspreader event for the highly transmissible delta vari...

Health care workers getting vaccinated also. we've learned something here. just because you work in the hospital doesn't mean your not susceptible to misinformation or disinformation and being vaccine hesitant. you have a 33-member federal disaster medical assistance team on site to help our lady of the lake, a baton rouge hospital. how bad -- well, not how bad. how worried are you about capacity considerations in the hospitals? >> well, we're extremely worried. and it's not so much a bed capacity. we have ppe and we have ventilators, unlike a year and a half ago. what we don't have is enough ...

How would you get more people vaccinated? what would you do? >> i think it is important to recognize that we're becoming victims of the unvaccinated at the current pace. we currently are overwhelming our bed capacity. we're creating burnout for our teams. and honestly, we're beginning to impact the rest of the health care of the community. what i would tell people is we've done an experiment here in south louisiana. in july, a month ago, in june, we prepared to enter the delta season, the delta season of the variant with approximately 35% vaccinated and 65% not. we did an experiment. the resul...

De we're doing everything we can but it is not enough. >> reporter: and they search for hours to find a bed. a charity called gift of the givers constructed this 20 bed field clinic staffed with volunteer doctors and nurses in less than five days. every single bed could give a sick patient a chance. doctors and nurses stress that some patients are too sick to be helped even if there is space in hospitals. we put the questions to the department of health about the conditions of hospitals, and they sent us their presentation saying that they had increased bed capacity. the delta variant is very ...