The coronavirus is killing between three and four thousand Americans each day.

And the number of people hospitalized?

Over the last few months, if you look at that number on a chart, the line is nearly vertical,

from 30,000 in October to 130,000 today.

Hospitals in Southern California are admitting infected patients faster than they can discharge them.

In Orange County?

All I see is 6666 and a lot of death.

Dr. DeNorwich in Chia says they've had to change the criteria for who receives critical care.

You have to be sicker to be admitted to the ICU now.

Every time I see people on social media, like having parties or gatherings,

I literally say unfriend, unfriend, unfriend, I just can't take it anymore.

The felfish-ness.

It's the same story in the northern part of the state.

You spend a shift taking care of people in your own community,

and then you leave and you're seeing people protesting having to wear a mask.

Dr. Don Harris works at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital outside Sacramento.

And you're thinking, okay, but if you get sick, I'm going to be here for you.

And that's hard. That is the thing that hurts me the most inside.

And at Harris' Hospital, many of the infections hitting now date back to Christmas.

A New Year's wave is next, and the only hope of relief for hospital workers is a vaccine.

It's the first time that we've used the word hope.

Consider this. We have the vaccines. We have people willing to take them.

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