KNTV NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt December 18, 2021 02:34:00
Hospitals. >> so there is some danger ahead. >> i think there is. >> reporter: bracing for a winter wave expected to rival last year's, every day 1,300 americans lose their lives. all of these rooms are full >> all of these rooms are full of intubated covid patients. >> reporter: to see the grim reality, look no further than farmington, new mexico two weeks ago we saw their icus were full today local funeral homes tell us they're now running out of room to hold the dead. >> miguel, there are a lot of headlines tonight. pfizer holding a delay for vaccine trials for children under five. what can...