“It’s a major crisis,” said an intensive care doctor at a New Orleans hospital. “It’s about to worsen.”
Other Louisiana hospitals faced further immediate hurricane damage. Lady of the Sea General Hospital in Galliano had its roof partially blown off, in a horrifying video.
Both patients were unvaccinated. Now, he suspects COVID numbers will rise again, with vaccination centers closed and people unable to socially distance.Medical assistant Terry Nguyen applies an adhesive bandage after administering a COVID-19 vaccination dose to Caldrick Williams at a vaccination site on Aug. 19 in New Orleans.
"You can't ask people to live in a home without running water and electricity and food and supplies, and then come to work," he said."It comes down to economics, and if you have the means and capability to go somewhere, you will."A tree is seen uprooted by Hurricane Ida in Houma, Louisiana, on Aug. 30.
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