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Statewide. unfortunately, we re unable to meet this need. we don t have the staff, space or beds. due to the scarcity, we re unable to provide life-saving care to everybody that needs it. the emergency room is overflowing and patients wait for hours to see a physician for emergency care. on a daily basis our transfer center is unable to accept patients that sit in emergency rooms and the current facility is unable to provide f. you need specialty care like a cardiologist, trama surgeon or neurosurgeon, we sadly may no have room now. there are no more staffed beds left. the letter goes on to encourage basically beg alaskans to wear a mask and if you re exposed to get tested and stay home and get vaccinated and quote, lastly, avoid potentially dangerous activities and situations that may increase your risk for needing emergency services and hospital care. unfortunately, if you re seriously injured it s possible there won t be a bed available in our drama center to save your
Due to the scarcity we can t provide life saving care to everybody that needs it. the emergency room is overflowing and patients wait for hours to see a physician for emergency care. on a daily basis our transfer center is unable to accept patients that sit in emergency rooms and the current facility is unable to provide f. you need specialty care like a cardiologist, trama surgeon or neurosurgeon, we sadly may no have room now. there are no more staffed beds left. the letter goes on to encourage basically beg alaskaens to wear a mask and if you re exposed to get tested and stay home and get vaccinated and quote, lastly, avoid potentially dangerous activities and situations that may increase your risk for needing emergency services and hospital care. unfortunately, if you re seriously injured it s possible there won t be a bed available in our drama center to save your life signed by the chief of staff on the medical executive
Pocket expenses associated with hospitalizations related to covid. initially they were and now they are starting to pull back. if care gets rationed, we know that there are some states with no icu beds left, should vaccine status be a factor in who gets a bed? i don t think that you can really do that in this setting because there is a lot of other set beings where people choose not to get vaccinated when they require hospitalization. we don t make those judgments. certainly flu is one of those. i would admit a lot of patients with influenza and many were unvaccinated. we didn t differentiate in terms of how we distributed care whether or not someone got the vaccine. so i don t think that we ll go down that path, but certainly we need to do all we can to encourage people to get vaccinated. scott, stay with us because we have to talk masks. we are getting a first look at how the mask orders are playing out in schools across the
Hospitals than any other county. toboost vaccinations, firefighters are going door-to-door. we have to make available this vaccine to our residents in any way and every way that we can. reporter: north texas is now out of pediatric beds. the state now now reporting the highest number of children hospitalized with confirmed covid. houston is now defying the texas governor and is expected to require masks in schools, joining austin and dallas. what we don t need is governor abbott sticking his nose in and trying to stop school districts from doing what they need to do. reporter: the president today standing behind local officials who are challenging their governors. to the mayors, school superintendents, educators, local leaders, who are standing up to the governors politicizing mask protection for our ds thank you. thank you, as well. thank god that we have heroes like you. reporter: tonight, across the south, many hospitals there warn they are nearing a breaking point. the