we will not have ppe, we will not have ventilators, we will not have what we need to take care of our patients. five ventilators. oh my god. it was clear that that day was coming if something didn't change. one video, you can see i'm walking into the hospital in the morning, and the line that day happened to be three times longer than it was the day before, waiting to get a test or get into the emergency department. i was kind of scared. i had put myself out there in a way that is not something that i usually do. people need to know what is happening here. i applaud her, her bravery, for really taking us behind the scenes. [dr. smith] a lot of the calls from friends and families and colleagues were things like, "i didn't know it was this bad." and in my head, i was like, "i don't even give them videos that were that bad." it's so much worse than what i showed. [drew] many medical workers are fighting this battle without the thinnest level of protection. [dr. gupta] it was shocking for us, because this is a country, if anything, always had an abundance of resources. all of a sudden, we couldn't find ourselves a $0.50 mask to try and protect ourselves against the disease.