hospital staff, particularly in the southeast. filling up with unvaccinated americans and pushing health care workers to levels they've not seen at some places at any point during the pandemic. let's go to georgia. the situation is so dire that hospital workers are pleading with people there to protect themselves. >> the vaccine is absolutely something that you can all do to help. we are tired. we are at wit's end. the staff is overwhelmed. taking care of your community, taking care of your family, possibly watching them die, this is something we have never seen before. it is trying times. i have been doing this for 26 years and never have we seen anything like this. >> that was donna cochrane, a chief nursing officer at liberty