CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper January 13, 2022 21:32:00
Health care systems nationwide are facing staffing shortages. are military teams a last resort in a medical crisis? have you ever seen anything like this before? >> well, we've seen it quite a bit over the last couple years, right, jake? even since thanksgiving there's been 800 military personnel deployed in 24 different states trying to provide relief, triage patients, and decompress emergency rooms. i mean, when hospitals become overwhelmed that is the issue. emergency rooms are full. they don't have beds for patients to go. you can't take new patients in. they can help with some of those ba...