they re dealing with the surge fueled by the delta variant. they re also preparing for the upcoming flu season and original vaccine sites are still giving people their first and second doses so that s why some places might not have that staffing capacity to administer boosters but for the places that do, they re getting their booster plans in place right now at this moment. back to you. jaclyn, thank you so much for that. look, another reason to get the vaccine. most private insurance companies are no longer picking up the cost of covid treatments. a kaiser family foundation found 72% of those plans no longer waive individual costs. mostly unvaccinated hospitalized with coronavirus will likely receive significant medical bills for their treatment. health plans treating coronavirus infections as they
live. that s partly because staffing capacities have changed state by state. so there is enough vaccine for boosters but not enough in some places for people to prevent harm. the rollout won t be quite like what we saw with the initial rollout of vaccines. remember back in january and february when there were mass drive through vaccination clinics set up across the country. well, this time we could see places like pharmacies and doctor s offices playing a larger role in administering boosters and each state s rollout also depends on who has the staffing capacity to give the shots. so in some states that could be the pharmacies. in others it could be the hospital systems. it varies. and that s also because keep in mind across the board hospital systems and health departments are overwhelmed right now.
orders. reporter: the hospital is going to turn a tent into a treatment unit. i just worry we re not going to have the staffing capacity to meet demand. reporter: hospitals across the bluegrass state so full with covid-19 patients almost the entire system stretched to the limit. so i get really fearful when we need beds for folks who their diabetes is out of control and they need an insulin drip or they have regular or acute cardio pneumonia. we might not have a bed for them. if you come with a heart attack and you need an icu bed we probably won t have a bed for you. reporter: st. clair health care crunches their own numbers. they believe they probably have about three weeks left in case increases and hospitalizations before they decline. that woman we met, middleton she is getting better, going to go home soon. she s encouraging her family to
reporter: 24 hours. yeah, we have that many orders. i just worry we re not going to have the staffing capacity to meet demand. reporter: hospitals across the bluegrass state so full with covid-19 patients almost the entire system stretched to the limit. so i get really fearful when we need beds for folks who their diabetes is out of control and they need an insulin drip or they have regular or acute cardio pneumonia. we might not have a bed for them. if you come with a heart attack and you need an icu bed we probably won t have a bed for you. reporter: they probably have about three weeks left in case increases and hospitalizations before they decline. that woman we met, middleton she is getting better, going to go home soon. she s encouraging her family to
treatment unit. i just worry we re not going to have the staffing capacity to meet the demand. hospitals across the bluegrass state so full with covid-19 patients almost the entire system stretched to the limit. so i get really fearful when we need beds for folks who their diabetes is out of control and they need an insulin drip or, you know, they have regular pneumonia. we might not have a bed for them. if you come in and have a heart attack and you need an icu bed, we probably won t have a bed for you. reporter: miguel marquez, cnn,more morehead, kentucky. miguel has done this state by state, 18-month tour through the united states as covid moved through once, twice, three times. and back in kentucky it s tragic. and here is the thing, when we re talking about hospital capacity, this is unvaccinated people who are filling these