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i mean, everybody is getting it. everybody is getting sick. everybody is we re just seeing a lot right now. reporter: appalachian regional health care has 13 facilities across eastern kentucky and west virginia. its entire system now overwhelmed by covid. we have no icu beds available. zero. zero? reporter: zero. across 13 facilities we have zero icu beds available. we are 35 parents waiting in the ers for beds. reporter: today appalachian health care has three regular beds available across the entire system. they ve cleared space and made room for 200 beds that sit empty unable to staff them. we have applied for fema disaster medical teams at multiple hospitals. our understanding is that
think much about covid until he got it. don t mess around. it s not a joke. it s not fun and games. i ve been here so long. i want to go home but i can t go home because i can t breathe. this is not a game at all. you feel like you re going to die. reporter: in the hospital 19 days now, the unvaccinated 42-year-old isn t sure how he picked up the virus. he toughed it out at home for eight days before being admitted. how serious is covid? it s bad to the bone. i recommend everybody wash their hands and do what they got to do. stay home. stay social distanced. it s bad. trust me. it s bad. reporter: until you had it, did you think it was bad? no. reporter: why? i didn t pay no attention. i do now. get your shots. reporter: wanda holmes manages the nursing staff in the covid icu at the regional health care s largest facility in hazard, kentucky. the nurse for 30 yearse. the job never tougher.
ratcheting up his level of aggression on that continuum from encouragement to requirement, move closer to requirement and tray to get people to come along and if he can do that, if the delta variant peak and cases go down, then you ll start seeing his approval rating on covid and people s assessment of his clarity improve to his benefit. amanda, you re the perfect person for the next question. the republican governor of new jersey chris christie spoke at the reagan library. this is what he had to say about the gop. we need to face the realities of the 2020 election and learn not hide from them. we need to renounce the conspiracy they orists and the truth deniers, the ones who know better, and the ones who are plain nuts. [ applause ] we re need to give our supporters facts that will help them put all those fantasies to
it s so hard. i get emotional because it is our community. i see they work very hard. very hard every day. you can usually see a difference. you work hard and see a difference. that s okay. you don t care you re tired. you ve made a difference. so they work just as hard, if not harder, it hurts when you don t see a difference. reporter: just when they thought they were through the worst of the pandemic. it has come roaring back. patients younger and sicker and harder to treat. the family it s hard to realize it s the end? it s our community. . they know people. they know people related to them. it s hard on the nurses is the emotional part, too. reporter: in the covid icu here in hazard, every bed taken by those suffering from severe cases of covid-19. every patient intubated except for one. what is this virus doing to places like hazard, kentucky? it s destroying us.