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We really need people to get vaccinated and to wear a mask when they're in public but indoors. >> i'll talk about masks in just one second. if some of your hospitals are to the place of needing to close down surgical rooms to make more space for icu needs, are hospitals at a point in your state where doctors are having to make tough choices about rationing care? >> at the moment we're still able to move patients from one hospital to another, but we are right at or quickly approaching that point. we've got one hospital in moorehead called st. clair, that's closed three operating rooms to expand...

Joining me now is public health writer and researcher at the university of st. mary, amber. you said georgia could be at risk of a regional hospital system collapse if the current trends continue. what would that even look like? >> well, what it would mean is that, you know, hospitals are unable to provide the care that they could normally provide to patients. so lives that could ordinarily be saved might not be possible because there just isn't enough bed space, there isn't enough staff. and so, what it really means is the triaging of care. >> so you're saying this would look like people goin...

When we look at the deaths that we've had over the past four days, i want to do a little bit of a dive. we've lost four healthy people in their 20s, two of whom were pregnant, zero vaccinated. >> reporter: tough numbers for some to hear. christi, you talked about the challenge of not having enough bed space. the governor here, tate reeves, says it's more challenging that finding beds. in the last year more than 2,000 health care professionals across the state have left the business, so they are trying to find more health care professionals to come in and treat these patients. christi and boris...

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...

Back on discretionary surgeries for sometime now. we're not losing space in our intensive care units to discretionary surgeries. we've been working together as a community to maximize the bed space available. we know our community, which is why local communities need the flexibility to be able to decide what's best for those communities and we're going to push real hard to maintain that liberty and freedom at our local communities. >> given the delta variant, how concerned are you where things could go in your city? >> real concerned about the delta variant. it real clear that it is a meaner, ...