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The country. cnn's adrienne broaddus has more on this. >> i've seen more tears shed on this unit and of my own ever, and i've been here for 26 years. >> reporter: she and her nurses on the covid wing at rush university medical center live with pandemic trauma. >> my coworkers and i have been through something and there's things that only we know about. it would be hard to explain everything to my family that i need to. >> the ptsd, that's the other thing we're not talking about. there's a huge amount of ptsd. >> reporter: since the pandemic started, more than 3,800 people have been sent to the...

The team of specialists will offer relief, as Maine Medical Center runs out of room to care for patients of any kind.

Executive order last month to prevent that from happening. several counties are pushing back saying it is a matter of protecting the safety of children and staff. in mississippi, hospital systems are struggling to keep up with a flood of new covid cases. adrienne broaddus is in jackson where one hospital has been forced to build a field hospital in its parking garage to keep up with the demand for beds. >> reporter: university of mississippi medical center is making history again. but this isn't the type of history it wanted to make. the lower level of the outside parking garage behind me has ...

So teams are preparing to treat covid patients in this garage. our elwyn lopez getting a look inside. >> this is normally just a garage, now part of it is turning into a makeshift hospital. they're adding 20 beds in here. this is the second time they've had to do this during the pandemic. the state's hospital system on the verge of collapse. >> reporter: but even with the crisis in mississippi, the governor insisting there will be no lockdowns or mandates. and more children are filling hospital beds than ever before. in alabama, seventh grader brody barnett was hospitalized too. his mom descri...

Is in effect, but he's really focusing on those who are unvaccinated. for the entire state, the majority of the people who have been hospitalized, 90% are unvaccinated. it's the same numbers here at-baton rouj general hospital. the unvaccinated filling up the icus, filling up the covid wing. we know there are grassroots efforts, vaccine canvassers will be knocking on door asking them if they're vaccinated, teaching them about the vaccine and signing them up for the shot. >> let's get some more on all of us joining us now michael osterholm, the director for infectious disease research. half the...