nurse marcia santini speaking for us there now she is making a good recovery and told r.t. the situation is at the breaking point we're stuck now we were running low on oxygen on supplies on you know all the respiratory drugs definitely bad definitely staff we don't have enough staff we are beyond stretched we have patients in overflow overflow overflow areas that were never intended to have patients other hospitals are setting out makeshift units outside of the hospital our government they blew it all so they could have released to the defense production act and ramped up the production of p.p. and all the other supplies that we need and they didn't do that so the whole the whole nations in a big big predicament of how we're going to be able to treat patients safely and give them the care that they need l.a. officials have issued a safer at home order to try and stop the virus gatherings for anything other than emergencies and political or religious purposes are banned most non-essential companies have been forced to temporarily shut down and the city mayor has urged peopl

. >> a risk too high from those fighting from the front lines including er nurse marcia santini who herself became infectedness we have tro take care of one-- i can't talk. we have to take care of one another. >> many more of those front line workers are getting caught in the astonishing threat of covid. right now it's believed one in 80 people in l.a. county is infected. >> lilia luciannea in los angeles, thank you. >> this weekend some 265,000 wreaths were placed at graves in arlington, national cemetery it happened at indiana's fairview cemetery too. it is part of the volunteer wreaths across america effort to place wreathes at veteran's graves, at some 2100 locations in all 50 states. >> now to a special santa in the spirit of the season. ups driver anthony gation kin has delivered countless packages on his route in suburban richmond, virginia, throughout these troubled times and does it with a smile. so this past week neighbors surprised anthony by lining the street to show their appreciation. and as you can see, anthony got a little emotional there. well, state ahead on the cbs weeken

hospital employees like marcia santini are now out sick struggling with covid. >> this was like someone punched me in the gut and ripped my heart out. >> there is a new study which shows a majority of kids with coronavirus got it from their family, not were their classmates. dr. anthony fauci says he's hopeful that an overwhelming majority of americans will take the vaccine when it becomes widely available this spring. >> we will get a vail or umbrella of herd immunity over the population. >> and finally after battling covid-19 since november and giving bert while in the hospital, natalie herera finally got to go home this week to hold her one month old baby boy felipe for the very first time. we just arrived in fresno, california, and here in the central part of the state the biggest hospital has run out of icu beds. you know there is another way to think about how the pfizer vaccine works, dr. tom frieden says the mrna in pfizer vaccine is like an email, it goes to your immune system, says what the virus looks like and gives instructions on how to kill it and then like a snapchat mess

live but many experts believe even with vaccines before things get better they may get worse marcia santini is a nurse in los angeles she says that even with protection she got the virus and warns that more trouble could be on the way it's going to take a lot of time before we can vaccinate everyone and we don't necessarily just get vaccinated it goes away adding to the problems a new variant of covert 1000 has been found in the u.k. and it is rapidly making its way around the world to. little through the whole genome sequencing and you have confirmed you can balance the krona virus in 3 people who entered south korea on december 22nd aside from south korea among others japan france spain italy norway canada jordan and south africa have all found people with a variant on their territories the world health organization says that there is no need to panic the u.k. has reported that this new vine and transmits more easily but that he's annoyed be done so far that it's more likely to cause if it is on a more tightly. wu is working with scientists to understand how these genetic changes affect h