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the end of september. within two weeks, she was on a ventilator. i was a nurse for over 40 years, and so i knew this could happen. i was praying it never would, but here we are. reporter: how does her prognosis look? i can t even go there. she s only alive because of this machine. can you wave to your momma. reporter: as hillary struggles to communicate. love you, too ( crying ). reporter: downstairs in the emergency room, dr. jaimee belsky is trying to keep up with the crush of new covid patients. keep a scalpel in my pocket in case we have an emergency airway. we re getting to where if we don t see an improvement in the number of patients we re going to have to look at do we ration care. reporter: they re operating at 175% capacity. how do you get more people vaccinated to stop this? talk to your friends. talk to your family. explain to them, yeah, it s getting better in some parts of the united states, but it s getting worse here. reporter: leaving families lik