Inside the ICU: An exclusive look inside Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center's intensive care 

Half the people interviewed sound like they're 30 seconds away from a mental breakdown.

I do this same shit every day, work over 60 hours a week at the hospital for the past year. People come in all the time and ask if covid is actually real....

I'm only a housekeeper at my hospital. But it's really sad how similar this situation is to my hospital. It makes me really sad

Holy crap! Actual journalism! Thank you so much for doing this

i’m a texas RN and this is an accurate representation of what this pandemic has been like. it’s exhausting 😞

My dad died from Covid. He died suffocating and gasping for air. If that’s not a death you want, vaccinate, take BASIC precautions, wear a mask, hand wash, distance when you can. It is real. I’m a student nurse and I’m seeing exactly what’s really happening. I’m so grateful for his medical team who called us to let us say our goodbyes. I can only imagine what they’ve been going through

There aren’t words to express my gratitude and pride for those who work in our hospitals, facing the unimaginable every day with calm professionalism and extraordinary grace. Thank you, and may the god or life you cherish bless you for all your days.

This is amazing. I’m an old dinosaur of an ICU nurse and this hits me hard. Part of me thanks heavens I’m retired and the other part wants to roll up me sleeves and help. The deniers and refuseniks make me crazy. This virus is real, it’s ugly, and won’t be conquered until we use the defenses science has afforded us

This is real journalism. Thank you, Sacred Heart for allowing access to your facilities. Thank you KXLY for reporting this crisis accurately and empathetically. Thank you, most of all, to health care providers and hospital staff for the sacrifices you make for your communities every day at your own expense. You don't get the support and praise you deserve.

This is why the Pulitzer Prize exists in journalism. This is the most powerful thing I've watched this year. Thank you KXLY Spokane WA.

I have seen this up close over the last 9 months as I was treated for cancer. Also got sepsis after chemo & the medical staff worked so hard saving those of us who were there. I am ever so grateful for the men & women who worked in the hospital during this pandemic. I was fully vaccinated while I was receiving chemo (so I was very immune compromised) & had no side effects from my Pfizer shots. No excuses, go get vaccinated.

So bizzare how a simple shot takes two seconds out of your day can prevent this and people don’t want it

Get vaccinated.

Every news channel should be doing this.

And if this was to be spread to the "real 'muricans' I'm pretty sure that everyone in this would become a "crisis actor" in their minds. My empathy bucket is getting dry.

I feel horrible for these doctors and nurses! What a crazy horrible job! They don't get paid enough for this emotional stress. So unfair. Its real and vaccine will most likely keep you off a vent!

🐍DONT TREAD ON MY VENT TUBE 🐍

This report is overdue since 1.5 years. Thank you, *Journalist!*

Those people on ventilators are probably not going to survive.

Thankyou for covering this and showing us the reality of the situation. I hope this video takes off to spread awareness.

It makes me really sad when I see people in the comments section asking statistical questions that are available to them but they are too uneducated to understand it. Our expensive education system has led us to the point where such a large population of this country to be paranoid without the ability to understand their surrounding.

I am very impressed with this report! True reporting, wonderful journalistic work. On the other hand, we need to support our nurses and doctors who are basically putting their lives ahead of everything to be able to save those who don’t care to understand the damage the corona virus is doing to us.

I wanna thank all these wonderful humans. The toll this will take will be felt for years

Thank you so much for all you do! I’m a chef in an independent living facility, and it reeeeally enrages me people have the audacity to say this isn’t real! Seriously?????? God bless you guys🙏🏻

I hope that daughter hears her mother's last message. That one got me to start crying. And I hope that baby born has a mother and father waiting for them, far too many children right now will be never held in their mother's arms, because COVID took them away.

Stop. Making. Excuses. Get vaccinated

Commenting so that the engagement goes up and more people will be recommended this.

Thank you for posting on RU-vid so I can watch

But "muh freedoms"

Thanks for the reporting. Thanks for the work of the doctor's and nurses.

Really need more stories just like this. Get the message out that this thing is REAL and DANGEROUS. And that people need to GET VACCINATED. Great job 4 News Now. Thank you.

Much Respect From Vancouver, Canada ! I think the Western World needs to see this

The dead weight of a person is really heavy and the way that has to be done is bad for the back. Not good.

ugh this was hard to watch because it just reminds me of my mother who passed away 6 years ago. she was intubated at the end and soon passed away. just reminds me of all the nurses that did their best for her but it wasn't meant to be. i'm eternally grateful for all the nurses going to work everyday and putting up with this crap. i nearly had a breakdown going through all that with my mom for a month and i can't imagine putting up with these kinda sights every day with no end in sight. i'm vaccinated because i don't really want to be responsible for somebody else getting sick. don't want people to go through what i did 6 years ago. sad that so many people are going through that every day.

Amazing report. Thank you. 🙏

Been wondering WHY hospitals all over the country haven’t been doing this since last year!!!!

I'm emailing this to my local school board. 60+ child cases in the first two weeks of school and they're still refusing to make masks mandatory!

Sympathy gauge seems to be running on fumes.

Proud of my hometown news station ❤️

The Delta Varian Killed My Beautiful only Daughter Please get Vaccinated😭💔😷

unfortunately, none of the enlightened in the maga universe will watch or believe this...

I feel so bad for the icu care people, I did what I could to make them hopefully better, I sent dozens of cookies to them.

Unfortunately this won't sway anyone who's already made up their mind to be obstinate.

I want to be an emergency doctor when I’m older I’m 15 at the moment so I’m working towards good exam results This footage is historic

Massive respect ❤️ to all health care professionals and also students who are willing to take medicine 💊 to save many lives as they can!

Why do people think the entire medical and science community is lying about this?

Great reporting. I live in Spokane and take Covid very seriously. I can't get vaccinated, so I'm basically a shut in til this dissipates or a vaccine is made for people with my specific health issues.

Here it is 5 months later, Feb 20, '22, and the pandemic is ending. Finally!

This is hopeless. This will never end.

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This is top class journalism. Thanks to the hospital to letting us see what happens behind the scenes

People don’t take care of themselves!!😡😡😡😡

I wish doctors and nurses speaks about the 4 stages of covid. I wish everyone can get to stage one or pre-covid symptoms so they can recover at home. Once to get to late stage 2 and still havent recover then the chances of fully recover after stage 3 is non-existence. At that point, the amount a waste buildup in your blood and lungs pretty much guaranteed you will have ever lasting complications for the rest of your life. They have to incubate you, stick tubes on every crevasses as your most of your body shutdown to simply trying to fight the infection. Its not a comfortable or pretty sight.

Have 0 sympathy for the unvaccinated who end up like this

I hope these nurses are vaccinated. Baffles me if you’re in a hospital setting and don’t get it

The selfishness of choosing not to get vaccinated has a huge impact on staff and other patients in a system with scarce resources. I have had it up to my neck hearing their nonsense.

this hurts my brain watching

I'm 69 yrs. I was an LPN. In my experience we used a device called a Stryker frame and also a Circoelectric bed to prone paralyzed patients. It was safe and much easier on the staff and patient. 2 people can do it. More would be needed to assist with the vent. Why don't they use these anymore?

Still saying trump 2024?

With the exception of those that can't be vax'd stop helping the others that won't get vax'd!

This is needed because it's out of sight out of mind for people who don't take it seriously. They see calm waiting rooms and think it's the same in the wards dealing with this.

I got vaccinated most of all because I don’t want to be a burden to heroes like these.

Excellent. Thank you for doing this.

I wonder what anti-vaxxers will say about this.

I appreciate this so much, and I've experienced this firsthand.

To think of how this all started. Thanks China.

Thank you and thank the hospital for doing this story. "Tell my daughter I love her."

All news stations should be showing this kind of heartbreak, sadness, and exhaustion these medical people go through daily, but the news should also let us know which hospitals/staff/nurses/doctors are not vaccinated. I understand it's our bodies our choice, but it's also our choice who cares for us when & if we get sick

Thank you for sharing

Live images 24/7 please!! I don’t see other solution

Wow awesome journalism

It is unbelievable. That is all I have to say

Important work being done here. Thank you for posting the clip.

Where's end of life /Advanced Care Directives? To extend life or end life

I just love medical staff SO MUCH!! I wish there was more I could do besides stay home and stay safe.

I’m watching this to understand what I went thru in Dec 2020. I was Intubated and put into a drug induced coma for two weeks for COVID pneumonia. My husband tells me that I received this same treatment of flipping from back to stomach to aid in breathing. I’m 48 with pre-existing conditions. Why did I survive while so many died? What am I doing here? I hope the Lord comes and tells me.

No shot no treatment.

The post-traumatic stress wave will be just as overwhelming as the delta wave.

Queue the paid actors comments ;-/

My family was fully vaccined. My oldest son went through this at Hi Desert medical center . He had more tubes and plugs in his body then I could count. Thank God he survived but was severely disabled with a long recovery. His sister also had covid but luckily she did not need to go to the hospital. I guess what I am getting at, is this is REAL and will take your life. And just because you're vaccined, it does not mean to return to normal. So just be safe and try to enjoy the holidays and hope the medical community can get a better handle on this.

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Murica baby!!!!!!!!!

Incredible journalism

God bless all the doctors and nurses to continue help. Thanks for showing this video to the world. God is with you.

Now they are going to be short even more nurses because of the vaccine mandate.

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The comments give me hope for humanity

Y'all interviewed everyone but the respiratory therapist, eh? C'mon, throw us a bone! But, thank you. This reflects my experience as an RT at a community hospital in Kentucky. I have had nights with just one ventilator left, no ICU beds, no nurse available to receive the patient who I know needs to be sent to the ER hold (our makeshift second ICU), only two RTs to manage 16 vents and the rest of the hospital to boot. I've helped deliver the news to one of my patients that his father is dying downstairs, then returned to work the next night to find that my patient went on the vent just as his father died, then 5 days later heard his code called too. I've cared for an entire family at once and later seen one of them die, yet the family still doesn't believe it was COVID. I've celebrated with a wife over an improved blood gas result, thinking that I found the magical CPAP setting that just might keep her husband off the vent, then returned to work the next night to see his name on the vent board. I work overtime every week, then come home and see people on social media denying that I just saw and did what I saw and did.

These videos continue to divide United States vaccinated vs. unvaccinated. 😡

Good thing you didnt monetize this video. An important message like this isnt ruined by a candy crush ad at all

Thank you for doing this! It's important for people to see this! You're all amazing!!! Angels really! Thank you!

Scrubs has really gone downhill...

I can see how they might feel like patients coming in unvaccinated might feel like a slap in their face :(

Unfortunately this won't change a young person's mind. They still see it as a "you older people's problem". I feel like more young patient stories need to be shared. As for mature adults not getting vaccinated, that's just idiocracy at work. When the doctors themselves don't take the vaccine, then yes you can be worried. Otherwise no, they're not part of a multi-million-member suicide pact after having spent all their lives either studying or saving lives.

Pleased Everyone get Vaccinated AMERICA! Be Wise,. I Pray for All of you Health Care Nurses, Doctors, Workers..

God bless them, what a nightmare everybody's in, hopefully we can get through this. Stay strong, those nurses and doctors look beat down barely capable to do their job. Don't forget the hospital is all about them profits baby, plus they're not buying the inexpensive ventilator with the 3D printed parts. No they're going to get that bad boy Jack the price up on it double the triple it and let's pass it on to the taxpayer and the patient. You know they're all about that money.

I had covid in January...ALL of January... 4 weeks of being extremely sick... I would compare it to having the flu + mono for 4 weeks... extremely weak + very sick. Anyone that doesn't take this seriously has not been personally affected by covid. It's sad that people only care or believe if it affects them.

The PPE companies have got to be raking in profits like never before.

Gosh I'm glad I retired right before this. I just can not breath in those masks all day!!

It seems to me like asking exhausted nurses and doctors to flip heavy patients is a bad idea. Depending on how many patients must be flipped and how often, you could probably hire a team of strong guys, train them in the flip and ppe use, and have them just do that for an entire shift. Having doctors and nurses do that work under these conditions is inevitably going to result in your specialized staff taking an injury.