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Ambulances can actually take patients. >> reporter: if it's red, that means they're full basically, so there are occasions when they're made to wait without taking the patient inside. it's called on the wall, where they're actually kept outside of the emergency room with the patient in the back of the ambulance waiting to be able to go inside. we don't allow that here. >> even if you're vaccinated and done all the right things, because of this pandemic and the unvaccinated, it affects you? >> it is. we've talked delaying surgery because we don't have a place to put you after the operation. tha...

Alone. >> reporter: up in the intensive care unit it's almost eerily quiet. there's no indication of the tremendous suffering that's happening behind closed doors. these yellow bags are full of ppe, and everyone knows those are the rooms with covid patients. how much of what you're seeing is truly due to the unvaccinated? >> 95% of our patients are unvaccinated. >> it's more challenging than the first covid wave we had because it seems like this variant is quick. >> this is the board we use in the g c c to help coordinate ambulances. >> this is the georgia coordinating center where they work m...

Beds. porta-potties instead of bathrooms and probably not enough of them. it was just things that none of us would want our family members to have to go through. >> reporter: according to a patient inside, insects were crawling all over the mattresses. the independence police chief says the facility was prepared for a certain number of residents, but it tripled quickly. >> i believe that the corporate management planned for 350. for whatever reason, they sent in 850. and where they failed was in not proactively seeking to move those patients to an appropriate facility. >> reporter: renaud o's ...

Floors instead of beds, portable potties instead of bathrooms and not enough of them. it is things that none of us would want our family members to go through. >> reporter: according to one patient inside, insects were crawling all over the mattresses. the facility was prepared for a certain number of residents, but the number tripled quickly. >> i believe that corporate management planned for 350. for whatever reason, they sent in 850. and where they failed was in not proactively seeking to move those patients to appropriate facilities. >> reporter: his 84-year-old mother made it out, but she...

The u.s. topping 3 million covid cases today. and tonight, this is the grim reality across much of the south and the west, where covid is exploding. >> in coronavirus, one minute you're looking great and the next minute, you're gone. >> reporter: this icu unit started with 46 beds. they doubled those and now need more. >> we are playing musical chairs in the middle of the night, moving one patient from one side to another. >> reporter: experts calling the sun belt the covid capital of the world. in arizona, cases more than doubling in just the past week. the mayor of phoenix tells us that test...