vaccine. reporter: many hospitals seeing an increased number of children infected with covid-19. doctors had to put up a tent outside an emergency room of a children s hospital in pittsburgh to help meet the demand of patients. the hospital s chief of emergency medicine writing on social media, the number of children coming to the emergency don t at u.p.m.c. children s is historic. it is over 6% full in six states. we ve implemented standards of care. this means the ability to deliver community standards of care using conventional means has been exhausted. reporter: two-thirds of hospitals in kentucky are reporting critical staffing shortages. i start my day every day with the situational report from hospitals, and it hurts to see that a hospital has every single person, every single ventilator in use and we have to send them more. that s a trend that we want to reverse.
many hospitals seeing an increased number of children infected with covid-19. doctors had to put up a tent outside an emergency room of a children s hospital in pittsburgh to help meet the demand of patients. the hospital s chief of emergency medicine writing on social media, the number of children coming to the emergency department at upmc children s is historic. in all, icus are still over 90% full in at least 6 states. currently, across the state, we have activated crisis standards of care. this means that the ability to deliver community standards of care using conventional means has been exhausted. reporter: two-thirds of hospitals in kentucky are reporting critical staffing shortages. i start my day every day with the situational report from hospitals, and it hurts to see that a hospital has every single person, every single ventilator in use and we have to send them more. that s a trend that we want to reverse.
likely the pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 could come as soon as halloween. we ve had 225,000 kids with covid. it s a serious issue among children and the best way to protect them is with this vaccine. reporter: many hospitals seeing an increased number of children infected with covid-19. doctors had to put up a tent outside an emergency room of a children s hospital in pittsburgh to help meet demand of patients. the hospital s chief of emergency medicine writing on social media, the number of children coming to the emergency department at upmc childrens is historic. in all, icus are still over 90% full in at least six states. currently across this state we ve activated crisis standards of care . this means the ability to deliver community standards of care using conventional means has been exhausted.