it breaks my heart, it really does. i m not used to this amount of death. and it wears you down. reporter: haunted by all that death. in her most recent shift, she found a way to help one family say good-bye to a loved one. it s so hard to sit there and hold your patient s hand while their family members are sitting there telling them they love them and it s not good-bye, it s see you later. reporter: across the country, nurses like carly rice offering that critical link between patients and family. and over the past couple of nights we told you about jason winehouse and his family in st. louis. five family members, including parents jane and mike, both landed in the icu. tonight, the good news. so they re off ventilators. they don t need any help breathing and they re in a standard room. i mean, that s great news.
elmhurst hospital in queens is, right now, the epicenter within the epicenter. today is kind of getting worse and worse. we had to get a refrigerated truck to store the bodies of patients who are dying. reporter: dr. smith revealing the shortages they re up against. five. five ventilators. oh my god. reporter: a disappointing shipment of those life-saving ventilators. state health officials report that patients who need help breathing, but don t have covid, usually spend three to four days on a ventilator. but covid-positive patients spend an average of 11 to 21 days. the concern is that all these ventilators that we re told are coming but haven t really started to materialize in large numbers, are they really coming? will we really get them? reporter: new york now getting the green light to split ventilators if needed. we have approved the technology that allows one
he was transferred here in shock yesterday. he had one surgery, then additional procedures to stop the bleeding. he s received multiple units of blood transfusions, so, they did expect him to require additional surgeries. when you are in critical condition, it does mean you could be unconscious and there are issues with bleeding. so, this surgery today, we don t know the exact nature of it, it likely had to do with some bleeding issues. what s the update on matt mika, who is a lobbyist, practicing with the team yesterday and i believe was shot in the chest. reporter: good news on matt mika, anderson. tonight, we re told, he is now listed in serious condition, he was listed in critical condit n condition. critical, of course, is the most severe condition. so, he was upgraded to serious. that s good news. as you mentioned, he was shot multiple times in the chest and the arms. he is now set to be alert, but he does require help breathing and he will need some additional surgeries, but
to require more operations and he will be in the hospital for some time. he is not out of the woods yet. he does have a road ahead of him. good news tonight for the congressman. he has improved over the past 24 hours. that is certainly some good news. thanks very much for that. we are obviously monitoring his condition. let me ask you about matt mika, the lobbiest who was shot in the chest. how is he doing? we are told that matt mika is doing pretty well. he has been upgraded from critical to serious condition and he is alert. he does require help breathing but he does require additional surgeries. he is alert and upgraded from critical to serious condition tonight. good news there, as well. thanks very much. discussion from dr. sanjay
hospital telling us he has improved over the past 24 hours. what they do say is he is going to require more operations and he will be in the hospital for some time. he is not out of the woods yet. he does have a road ahead of him. good news tonight for the congressman. he has improved over the past 24 hours. that is certainly some good news. thanks very much for that. we are obviously monitoring his condition. let me ask you about matt mika, the lobbiest who was shot in the chest. how is he doing? we are told that matt mika is doing pretty well. he has been upgraded from critical to serious condition and he is alert. he does require help breathing and he does require additional surgeries, but he is alert and upgraded from critical to serious condition tonight, anderson. good news there, as well.