KNTV NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt August 31, 2021 01:52:00
On hand as hospitals overflow in florida, where 93% of icu beds are now full, there were over 150,000 new cases last week, a rise of over a thousand percent since june >> if we really got the overwhelming majority of those 80 million people vaccinated, you would see a dramatic turnaround in the dynamics of the outbreak. >> reporter: in san diego, hospitals are now delaying some elective surgeries to help conserve critical resources. while in texas, michelle puget is seeing the toll firsthand. her son daniel died not of covid, but of treatable gall stone pancreatitis there were no beds availabl...