so teams are preparing to treat covid patients in this garage. our elwyn lopez getting a look inside. >> this is normally just a garage, now part of it is turning into a makeshift hospital. they're adding 20 beds in here. this is the second time they've had to do this during the pandemic. the state's hospital system on the verge of collapse. >> reporter: but even with the crisis in mississippi, the governor insisting there will be no lockdowns or mandates. and more children are filling hospital beds than ever before. in alabama, seventh grader brody barnett was hospitalized too. his mom described the horror inside the hospital. >> you're on the covid wing and you look in the glass doors and there are kids of all ages and they all look just like brody, struggling to breathe and everyone is in a hazmat suit. >> reporter: david, back here in corpus christi, we are at a site where some covid patients who are experiencing mild symptoms are getting regeneron therapy. they are receiving an tip body drugs in the early stages of