Earlier this year, with vaccines available and cases dropping, many South Carolinians were hopeful that the worst of the COVID pandemic was behind the state. Instead, lagging vaccine uptake and the rise of the delta variant brought on a third surge of the virus for the state. Dr. Brannon Traxler, public health director for the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control gives us an update on the state of the pandemic in S.C., and reporter Avery Wilks shares what he learned about how stress and burnout is affecting people working behind the scenes during this pandemic.