“You have a heart attack, a stroke, a car accident and you have to come to the hospital, guess what you are going to have to wait in the emergency room before a bed becomes available”, explains Dr. Ben Adams .
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Hospitals are full in the state of Louisiana in the United States and the beds are freeing in only two ways, either people get better and get by or their condition deteriorates and dies according to this doctor from the general hospital from Terrebonne to the south of New Orleans.
In recent weeks, the southern United States has been experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases due to the presence of the Delta variant and the low vaccination rate, reports the 4WWL media in New Orleans.
“The hospital is packed like never before,” says Phyllis People of the health department in this area of Louisiana.
Moreover, this wave in the United States particularly hits a younger clientele. Many patients between the ages of 20 and 50 end up in the emergency room after contracting the virus. There are even children including toddlers of 4 and 8 months and one of only 11 weeks.
More than 90% of patients deemed critical to this region are not vaccinated.
“We have never seen a situation like this, nobody has seen it before, when I talk to my colleagues across Lousiane, we tell ourselves that it is really different than the first wave”, says Phyllis. Peoples.
In addition to lacking space to accommodate new patients, some hospitals in Louisiana are weakened because employees are themselves affected by COVID-19.
At the Terrebonne General Hospital, 40 employees recently received a positive result.
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