Hospitals put under pressure from COVID-19 outbreak | 7.30

NSW is well beyond the point of no return in its strategy to adapt to living with COVID, and that means the next couple of months is going to be sad and challenging as the state adjusts to high case numbers and daily deaths. Cases are predicted to peak during the next fortnight and hospitalisations will jump next month before high vaccination rates hopefully start to affect the numbers. Modelling has confirmed the situation in hospitals will stretch healthcare workers and intensive care specialists, but it's not just NSW in the spotlight. There is particular concern about "zero COVID" states such as Western Australia, where public hospitals are already struggling even without a single COVID case admitted. This report from Hannah Sinclair and Marty McCarthy. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE ABC News provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad, including the latest coronavirus pandemic updates. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation. For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY Watch more ABC News content ad-free on iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2 Like ABC News on Facebook:   / abcnews.au   Follow ABC News on Instagram:   / abcnews_au   Follow ABC News on Twitter:   / abcnews   Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia