 Governor Andy Beshear continued hammering home the need for Kentuckians to mask up and vax up by pointing to the strains affecting the state's health care system. The governor noted that 66 of the state's 96 hospitals are now facing critical staffing shortages the highest number yet. And to illustrate the struggles health care workers are facing, he shared the story of one employee at Pikeville Medical Center. They beg for you to call your families. They beg for you to tell their families that they love them. You know once they make it to the ICU to get intubated they're sedated. So whatever they got to say they got to say before that last week. I mean told me you know we knew we were going that way we knew it. He had a biopap on he was maxed out on his oxygen on it. We were still we were dropping he said just take it off let me die and I begged you no no no not today today's not the day you've got more fight today's not the day we're not going to do it. So I called his wife so she talked to him and he said okay I'll do it a little while longer. So his biopap was so loud she couldn't really hear what he was saying so I said what do you want me to what do you want me to tell your wife? He could hear her she talked to him before he hung up he said tell her that I love her I'll be on the ventilator by this evening two hours later unresponsive put him on the ventilator next day he was made come for measures on the ventilator he passed away that's my every day. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting edge technology providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. Governor Bashir also updated vaccination numbers which showed a lot of work left to do to get more people under 30 vaccinated. The governor also noted that the age groups below 30 currently have the highest rate of infection in the state.