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[reporter] we are living through a real moment of history. -who's next? -[crowd] class war! all the world is watching! stand back and stand by. [reporter] the president has tested positive for covid-19. it is a scam-demic! [reporter] the coronavirus vaccine is here. the people of this nation have spoken! they have delivered us a clear victory. we will never give up, we will never concede. [crowd] whose streets? our streets! [amanda] while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated. [music] [crowd] five, four, three, two, one! [donald] hello everybody,...

We had too many patients. [dr. ng gong] every hour or so, we're having an emergency called for respiratory distress. there was just so much fear, and there was so much uncertainty at the very beginning, in march. and we had no idea what was coming. within a few days, that's when the wave started. one after another after another after another. [man] they're overrun with patients. emss last night broke a record, we handled 65 hundred calls. [mola] it's so dire, emts have been told to stop transporting some patients in cardiac arrest that can't be revived in the field. everybody was being pulled ...

To try to clean rooms and rapidly turn them around, working with the infectious disease docs to see what they need to do to disinfect, how to make it safe. we have engineering guys trying to figure out how to re-engineer rooms. the ventilator is here now. [dr. smith] the ventilators are machines that we put patients on to breathe for them when they can't breathe for themselves. we had 30 icu beds when covid started. by mid-april, we had 200 patients at elmhurst on a ventilator. [mola] many young people are ignoring pleas to stay home, including spring breakers in florida. [woman] we do care ab...

Contagious at that point. it's a big number. you add on two other things. one is you don't necessarily need to get a test. so about a third of these, again, hundreds of thousands of people may not know they're contagious. they feel fine. but they could be out there back in society. and the cdc is still saying that three-ply cloth masks are okay. most infectious disease docs are telling us with past variants that was the case, but omicron, which transmits so much more easily, those types of masks aren't cutting it. people aren't getting tested so they don't know it. they may not be wearing the ...