Louisiana has issued another statewide indoor mask mandate to combat the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations due to the very contagious Delta variant.
“It has become extremely clear that our current recommendations on their own are not strong enough to deal with Louisiana’s fourth surge of COVID,” he said. “In fact, nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that this is just another surge. This is the worst one we’ve had.”
The announcement came as the state’s largest hospital -- Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in Baton Rouge -- ran out of beds and called in a disaster medical assistance team to help with the surge in patients. COVID-19 hospitalizations have jumped from 36 to 155 patients in 2 weeks. “There are no beds left,” Catherine O’Neal, MD, the chief medical officer for the hospital, said on Monday.,” she said. “We are no longer giving adequate care to these patients.”
Edwards noted that circumstances would grow worse in the short term and that the state would likely report the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations so far during the pandemic on Tuesday. The number of patients is close to 2,000, which is 7 times the number of patients a month ago, the AP reported.
Edwards and O’Neal urged unvaccinated residents to get a shot to prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death. Louisiana has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, the AP reported, which has allowed the Delta variant to spread among unvaccinated residents. About 43% of the state population has received at least one
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