Part1 Weve Seen This Movie Before Hospitals Full Capacity Covid-19 Coronavirus Lockdowns Pandemic

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The authorities across the country are warning it will be months before the vaccine reaches everyone who needs it. And tonight the images coming in from hospitals across the country, patients waiting outside ERs, patients waiting outside ERs, patients waiting outside ERs, we've seen this movie before, we've seen this movie before, patients waiting outside ERs. I've seen more people die in the last seven days than I've talked to my own family members. Patients waiting outside ERs. We've seen this movie before, we've seen this movie before. If I catch this it could potentially kill me so it's very stressful, very stressful, very stressful. Tonight the nation bracing for a new COVID explosion and a major step in the race for a vaccine. Tonight the darkest days of the pandemic as the US sets chilling new records. The nation reporting the highest number of COVID deaths and over 200,000 new cases in a single day and record hospitalizations, over 100,000 and record hospitalizations, over 100,000. We've seen this movie before and record hospitalizations, over 100,000. So I guess what the news has been saying about you guys being completely overflowing with patients is not exactly accurate. Confronted on the front lines by someone posing as a patient. I wish you guys gave the public the right information. The person behind the camera asking why the waiting room at Victoria Hospital is empty. Patients waiting outside ERs. The spirit post Thanksgiving surge is here. The US shattering a single day record with over 222,000 new cases. The crush of patients and a surge of infections tied to the Thanksgiving holiday. Miguel Almiger has the latest. The Thanksgiving surge experts feared is now here. Patients waiting outside ERs. Patients waiting outside ERs. Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Empty. Where's the sick people? Where are the COVID patients? Where are they? Where are the COVID patients? Where are the COVID patients? Where are they? They don't exist. They don't exist. There's nobody here. Don't touch me. Don't block it. Don't touch me. I have my rights. Don't touch me. I'm not coming there. Just not coming. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? I'm going to say, why don't you speak up? Why don't you speak up about nobody being here? Why don't you all speak up about nobody being here? Where's the sick people? Where are the sick people? Look at all these people. Why don't you speak up? Why don't you speak up? Why don't you all speak up medical professionals? Heroes? How are you? Don't just sign. Why don't you? Where's the sick children? They're actually in schools. Where are the sick people? Look, where are you? Comparientity. Comparientity. No one's here. No one's here. Why don't you speak up? Why don't you speak about nobody being here? Why don't you all speak up about nobody being here? Where's the sick people? Where in your room? Comparientity. Where in your room? Comparientity. Patients waiting outside ERs. Where in your room? Comparientity. Hospitals at the breaking point as the US tops 15 million cases, ICU beds running out. A field hospital activated in a parking garage. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. Can you know about it? I know a little bit about it. This is the main lobby here at the hospital today is 26th of November. Thanksgiving actually. I just fell on a waterfall yesterday and tore my rotator cuff. But this is what the hospital looks like inside. I've been down a couple of the hallways already and there's nobody here. Basically, you know, this is what every hospital in America looks like. The world probably for that matter. No one's at the hospitals. There's no sick people here. There's no connotations. I'm not young anymore because it's just a midpoint close. Nobody. This is the end of the ER. So we're going to walk through the ER real quick. Want to weigh out. I'll show you what it looks like. Buzz me and please. Oh, thank you. Addressed again, crease in serious cases is overwhelming medical centers everywhere. The average ICU at 90% capacity in states like New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Texas and Nevada. There's definitely signs of fatigue. Addressed again, crease in serious cases is overwhelming medical centers everywhere. This is a shady growth hospital. It's a pretty big hospital and the DC Metro area up to 70. I'm only stopping here because it's on my way to where I'm going. This is for example, this is about there's ambulance, private ambulance service. There's another one. This is the main ER entrance to shady growth hospital. There's doctors and nurses leaving. There's no activity here. There's people standing around. That's a hell of a bad. There's just nothing going to have cops now. In the ERs, blocking people from seeing what's going on. This is the ER parking lot. Normally you can find a spot in here, back in December, January, February, last year of this year. So this is what it looks like. There's no pandemic. There's no hospital beds being occupied. There's just a real counter-earth view of it. This is all hospitals. No matter where they have cops now. In the ERs, blocking people from seeing what's going on. Why don't you speak up? Why don't you speak about nobody being here? Why don't you all speak about nobody being here? Where's the sick people? In the ERs, blocking people from seeing what's going on. Science of fatigue. In Reno at Renown Health, they've put beds in a parking garage, but what they desperately need is staff. There are requests for traveling nurses, but every hospital throughout the nation are making the same requests. With daily infections, climbing since March, the US added 1 million new cases in just the first week of December. In Arizona, experts warned by Christmas the state could see a humanitarian crisis. In New Mexico, crisis standards of care could soon be implemented, allowing providers to ration care for patients more likely to survive. We don't have a magic bullet right now. There's a vaccine coming, which is important, but it's not here yet. So, as a remittist, how does it look? It looks like a war zone to you, bro. Patients waiting outside ERs. Patients waiting outside ERs. I'm looking for the COVID patients. Where's all the sick people at? Where's all the COVID patients? Oh, behind these? No. Oh, let's see. Where they at? Where's all the sick people? Where's all the people, sir? You can go out to the hospital. Why don't you start telling the truth about what's happening? This hospital is empty. Look at all the staff, everybody. Staff everywhere. No one's at call the police. This is supposed to be a place of safety. This is supposed to be a place of safety. I'm sick. I'm sick. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. The police are going to come, right? Look at all these people. Look at all these people working here. Look at everybody. Right. Say hi to everybody. Ain't nobody here. Places empty. Host another empty hospital. Look, look at all these people. Astority me. I know where my car is. What? Why don't you start telling the truth about what's happening? Why don't you start telling the truth about what's happening? Patients waiting outside ERs. Why don't you start telling the truth about what's happening? Patients waiting outside ERs. I'm looking for the COVID patients. Where's all the sick people at? Tonight, the tough new coronavirus lockdowns. 33 million in California now under the nation's strictest stay at home order. But many sheriff saying they won't enforce it. New York on the verge of its own new crackdown in Massachusetts, a field hospital activated. But are there enough staffers to run it? While today Michigan extended their restrictions. Officials now warning the next holiday surge could be worse. And then you have another celebration. A new year's. That extends that vulnerable period by two or three times what you do and thanksgiving. In Massachusetts, a field hospital ready to serve more than 200 COVID patients is now up and running. But as cases reach a record high nationwide, staff is running critically low. We can make space. We can't make critical care nurses. Tonight the fight against COVID is dire as ever. Tonight the fight against COVID is dire as ever. What's your name? I need to see a medical doctor. What's your name? My eyes are receiving me. I'm having anxiety. What's your name? Because these hospitals are empty. So I have a. I think my eyes are receiving me. And I'm having anxiety because we're being told we're a medical pandemic. But the hospitals are empty. Isn't that weird? Now building outside the COVID building. It's also empty. He's here. He's here. Yes, me, man. It's me. See you all later. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. The bottom line is if we don't act now, our hospital system will be overwhelmed. Fear turning to frustration for restaurant owners. I'm losing everything. Everything I own is being taken away from me. And they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio. Desperate Pleas from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. I want to be very frank to the American people. The vaccine's critical. But it's not going to save us from this current surge. Only we can save us from this current surge. And we know precisely what to do. Across the nation, no region spared. More than 100,000 Americans now hospitalized. Desperate Pleas from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. Desperate Pleas from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. I'm just going to be at our hospital. I'm going to walk in and take a little look around. Go to the ER. See how empty it is today. This is the emergency. Completely empty. Completely empty. Nice. Nice. It's just standing around. Doing nothing. No emergency is in there. I'm just curious if you guys are able to provide any statistics or information about how busy you guys have been in the last couple months and stuff. Is there media? Do you have a full number, a name or something that I can? Okay. Sure. Sounds good. Thank you. President-elect Biden says he'll ask the public to wear a mask for a hundred days to slow the spread. But Dr. Fauci warns masks may be needed longer. Now it might be that after that we're still going to need it. All right, guys. This is the emergency room at Holy Cross Hospital. The Holy Cross Hospital's huge hospital center here is these vacant buildings that are here. This is an ER. It's all combed off. Just showing you that basically. There's nobody in here. This is Holy Cross Hospital. It's a huge, huge hospital center here in Maryland, D.C. area. It's probably the biggest hospital. It's about 4.5 a major, major highway. Here's a cop because they're now doing surveillance. This is the ER parking lot. There's your temporary building. Here's your edge you all can see. There's nothing like these parking drives or all empty. The hospital, I'll drive around a little. Desperate police from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. Desperate police from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. You can see the difference between the gas and the temperature of the situation in the city and the city. Desperate police from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. The gas and the temperature of the situation in the city and the city, the city, the city, the city, the city, the city. It's a truck that's just a vehicle. I don't know if it's going to be a car or if it's going to be a completely expensive car. Thank you. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your support. So I guess what the news has been saying about you guys being completely overflowing with patients is not exactly accurate. I'm telling you something. I'm telling you something. I'm telling you something. I'm telling you something. Are you filming? Desperate police from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. Desperate police from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. I don't have before me right now any data to compare where we were at the same time last year. When we have a very severe flu season, which we had 1718, we were very close to where we are right now, which we had 1718. We were very close to where we are right now. We've seen this movie before. Perhaps no area is paying a grimmer toll than Los Angeles. Just yesterday the death toll in this one county higher than 39 states. For the most high-risk patients, nurses and doctors will minimize their time inside these negative pressure rooms. It's not uncommon for a patient to spend 23 and a half hours a day alone. As more hospitals run out of ICU beds, some cities are declaring an emergency. Frontline workers pleading with the public to follow mandates. How do a patient ask you if they're dying? In the whole damn she's getting sick. I'm trying. I'm trying. But I can't breathe. It's hard. Larry Anna-Shot knows too much about laws. She's always there for me. COVID killing four of his siblings in less than a month. Now buried together. Desper please from the nation's top doctors for Americans to take this seriously. I'm trying. This is the front entrance of St. Luke's hospital in Denver and it seems pretty chill. Not a lot going on down here. It doesn't seem too busy. Yeah, pretty empty. Nothing going on. Hashtag filming my hospital. When I go home I don't get to hug my kids. No one went to the door anymore. Because we don't give hugs when I go. The first thing I do is I shower. And then I spend half an hour with them and I come back and I do it again. Doctors and nurses struggling with staff shortages and fears of getting the virus. I'm trying. I'm trying. Much of the vaccine won't come soon enough for the thousands now dying every day. Or some of the nearly 233,000 diagnosed just yesterday. As hospital struggle, Miguel Almiger got rare access to one of the busiest ICUs in Los Angeles. Every day thousands more arrive at hospitals across the country. Fueled by another single day record of new infections, medical centers like Providence, St. Joseph near Los Angeles have seen COVID admissions triple. I think it kind of has to go on event. NBC News given exclusive access inside their COVID ward. We've never had to treat so many sick patients at the exact same time. Every bed in this ICU wing is filled. Every bed in this ICU wing is filled. We've never had to treat so many sick patients at the exact same time. We've seen this movie before. The drastic increase in serious cases is overwhelming medical centers everywhere. We've seen this movie before. Every bed in this ICU wing is filled. We've never had to treat so many sick patients at the exact same time. We've seen this movie before. Dates back to October about the beginning of flu season. And look at how we see admissions for flu-like symptoms jump around March 1st. New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. Both Texas and Florida seeing record numbers of single day deaths. New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. 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New York City's emergency rooms are already seeing a spike in admissions. Tows us that FEMA has given them $350 million to put up four emergency hospitals in the state of New York. But this will be the biggest. FEMA has given them $350 million. FEMA has given them $350 million. Doctors have seen this movie before. Dr. Ainoff Edward runs El Centro Regional Medical Center in California. This hospital has just two ICU beds left before their ad capacity. While working non-stop since the summer is deadly surge, they're facing down yet another surge. This time, a second field hospital with 50 beds has been erected. The medical tent mimicking a familiar scene to this Air Force veteran. This brings me back or takes me back to when we were in the middle of Baghdad. Are we in a war zone? We are. So we used the shy away from using the term war zone. Where on a war zone against COVID? The signs of a big battle are re-appearing across the country. On satan island and emergency hospital reopened. Coronavirus organizations there have nearly tripled. In Rhode Island, a field hospital erected. Another put up by the National Guard in Massachusetts and... We are. We are. It's a field hospital ready to serve more than 200 COVID patients. It's now up and running. We are. We are. ICU beds running out. A field hospital activated in a parking garage. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. Mr. Fundy. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. The opportunity to take care of the ground. Q game. In Kenya. Graveding dog. Come on, Elsa. Come on, come on. Come on, come on, come on. It's quite out here. We've got likes. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. The Army Corps of Engineers mobilized in the US. The agency scrambled to hire contractors and build emergency field hospitals around the country at a cost of more than $660 million. But nearly four months into this pandemic, most of these facilities have never treated a single patient. Most of these facilities have never treated a single patient. They've seen this movie before. The Army Corps of Engineers mobilized in the US. We know that many of our hospitals right now are getting overtaxed by COVID. There are echoes of New York's COVID crisis, morgues requesting refrigerator trucks to help store bodies. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. We've seen this movie before. 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