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can you nod your head for me? there you are. all right. good. almost always before they get intubated they want to call their loved ones to tell them they love them and say good-bye. and, unfortunately, oftentimes that is the last time they speak to them. reporter: for people who say this is florida, we re past it in florida. we re good. what do you say to that? this is one of the worst waves i ve experienced. i mean, things are as bad with covid as they ve ever been in florida. come spend a day with me. you ll see we re not okay. i walk down the hall and almost all of our patients are on their bellies to help them breathe. reporter: randi kaye joins us now. given the surge in patients, given that we re not okay as these health care workers are saying, does the hospital have what it needs? does it have enough ventilators? reporter: well, john, they have dipped into their hurricane supply of ventilators which they
you know, this is we re past it in florida. we re good. what what do you say to that? i this is one of the worst waves that i ve experienced. i mean, i think things are as bad with covid as they have ever been in florida. now, come spend a day with me. you will see we re not okay. i walk down the hall, and almost all of our patients are on their bellies to help them breathe. randi kaye joins us now. randi, given the surge in patients. given that we re not okay, as these health-care workers are saying, does this hospital have what it needs? does it have enough ventilators? well, john, they have dipped into their hurricane supply of ventilators. those are the ventilators that they would have put aside for a major storm. so, they are using those. they are also using these refrigerated-mobile units as morgues, so they need those as well. and funeral homes also, john, in this area are feeling the impact. we spoke to the funeral funeral director at wilson funeral home here in