health care system is buckling under new pressure the virus is so widespread many healthcare workers are testing positive and calling out sick, and there's a lot of seemingly conflicting information. this virus is less severe, but icus are still approaching capacity, and what to make of the larger number of people who tested positive for covid while hospitalized for something else sam brock leads off our coverage tonight to help us make sense of it all. >> a year ago or even a month ago the dail covid infection number might have seemed impossible roughly 870,000 cases recorded friday alone. >> this has now been the largest influx of patients that we've ever taken care of they've been the sickest of the patients we've ever taken care of. >> a deeper dive into the number of hospitalized patients and deaths reveals trends that certainly don't match the massive case rise daily average. a 265% increase over two weeks compared to a 72% increase for