because of the terrible workload placed on our nurses and also because of shortages around the country, nurses have left hospitals to go to hot spots where they are being rightfully paid a lot of money to do that. but all over the united states now, there are nursing shortages. emergency departments are full of patients. not because the hospital has no more beds, but because the hospitals don t have enough nurses. and this is happening, this is a crisis all around the country made much worse by this pandemic. and the way to keep people out of the emergency departments and to ease this crunch is to have a vaccinated community where this virus is not surging and we re seeing now in places like michigan and minnesota and illinois and massachusetts, we re seeing these really dramatic surges in case loads, flooding hospitals, and at some point, there are not enough
cal perry has more. we ve seen a tripling of assaults on our workers. reporter: the stress of covid is bubbling over. multiple factors is contributed to the rise. overworked staff, strained resources to care for patients, covid rules over masks, and visitation limits. you ve got to tell the family members, you need to wait outside. we need to get this patient stabilized. that s really hard for the families, and it makes them update. reporter: in massachusetts, panic buttons. patients beating and spitting on workers. assaults jumped from 40 to 123 between 2019 and 2020. we have the chance to press the button, and security knows exactly where we are. if we have to chase a patient down, they know where our last location is. reporter: it comes as hospitals struggle to keep workers on the job with many facing severe nursing shortages. they re exhausted. there s fewer and fewer people that feel they can bear the risk
for people who break the law to come here, no big deal. it s up to you want that s how ridiculous the biden administration has become am these people who just a year like doctors, nurses and police officers were heroes. now will lose your job if you don t take the same vaccine that kamala harris said he would not take a year ago. this is ridiculous and the american people know that. laura: we had nursing shortages. police officers being fired. they are bringing in foreign workers to take the jobs of americans who don t get the vaccine. is this really the country we were born in. i want to add this. even before this whistleblower news, border patrol is already suffering from personal shortages. in a june report the agency s model showed a shortage of 1700
the job on the border will be fired if they don t take the vaccine, meanwhile people who break the law coming here no big deal, it is up to you. that is how ridiculous it has become. these people like doctors and nurses and police officers were heroes, now you re going to lose your job if you don t take the vaccine, the same vaccine kamala harris said she wouldn t take a year ago, this is ridiculous. laura: we have nursing shortages, police officers being fired, bringing in foreign workers to take the jobs of americans who don t take the vaccine, is this the country we were born in? i just want to add this even before this whistleblower news voter patrol was already suffering personal shortages because in a june report from the national treasury the