'I've seen more death than ever': ICU nurse tells news crew she is QUITTING due to 'compassion fatigue' because of the number of sick and dying who failed to get their shots

An ICU nurse in Mississippi said she no longer has the strength to treat unvaccinated Covid-19 patients after 'seeing more death than I've ever seen in my entire life' amid a spike of cases linked to the Delta variant.

Jennifer Sartin, who works for the Singing River Health System in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, told the Sun Herald she requested a transfer as 'compassion fatigue' takes its toll. 

Sartin said: 'I've actually resigned from critical care because I couldn't take it.'

She spoke of the frustrations surrounding sacrificing her time, life, family and sanity to treat people with the virus. 

'To know that people have the option to protect themselves and to protect other people and they're not choosing to do that is so mentally straining,' Sartin said.

Jennifer Sartin (pictured left and right), who works for the Singing River Health System in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, told the Sun Herald she requested a transfer as 'compassion fatigue' takes its toll

She added: 'When we went from three to eight Covid patients in one week I knew that it was going to be another wave almost - if not worse than - what we did last year.

Data from Outbreak.info showed that the Indian 'Delta' variant, a highly contagious variant that originated in the south Asian nation, accounts for 13 percent of cases in the state. 

'This time is different because knowing that a lot of this - or most of the cases - is from unvaccinated patients adds a level of frustration that was not there before.'

'To know that people have the option to protect themselves and to protect other people and they're not choosing to do that is so mentally straining,' Sartin said

Respiratory therapist Lasheia Begnaud told MSNBC that patients being hospitalized for Covid often regret not getting vaccinated and say to her, 'please don't let me die'

Among patients getting treated in the three hospitals that make up the health system, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said 90 per cent of them are unvaccinated at a news conference last month

Mississippi is among the states with the lowest amount of vaccinated residents and with the deadly Delta variant on the rise most hospitals here are at or near capacity. 

According to MSNBC the state's largest hospitals ran out of ICU beds this week.

Among patients getting treated in the three hospitals that make up the health system, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said 90 per cent of them are unvaccinated at a news conference last month.  

As of yesterday there are 1,303 Covid hospitalizations in Mississippi, a 107 per cent increase from the 628 patients hospitalized two weeks ago

The prevalence rate of the Detla variant in Mississippi. The variant accounts for 13 percent of cases in the state, down from where it was weeks before

Sartin also spoke to MSNBC and said: 'We need help. We've been helping as much as we can but we need help from our community.'   

Respiratory therapist Lasheia Begnaud told the news station that patients being hospitalized for Covid often say to her, 'please don't let me die'.

'They regret not taking the vaccine,' she added.

Mississippi is among the states with the lowest amount of vaccinated residents and with the deadly Delta variant on the rise most hospitals here are at or near capacity

As of August 10 there are 368,549 Covid cases in Mississippi with 1,121 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. 

A total of 7,685 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in the state. 

Reeves, Sartin and Begnaud have urged the state's residents to get vaccinated in order to protect them from the virus. 

There is a nationwide trend of increasing infections. New US cases have increased more than five-fold over the past month with the seven-day average hitting 113,357 on Thursday