Hospitalizations rise in southeast Louisiana
Dr. Peltier said nearly all of the COVID patients coming into North Oaks Health System never got the vaccine. Author: Devin Bartolotta / Eyewitness News (WWL) Published: 10:44 PM CDT July 14, 2021 Updated: 10:45 AM CDT July 15, 2021
HAMMOND, La. In several parishes, hospitalizations from COVID are on the rise and are paired with plateauing vaccination numbers.
At North Oaks Health Center in Hammond, the number of COVID patients has doubled over the last two weeks, according to Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Robert Peltier.
“We saw almost all of the parishes in southeast Louisiana double their rate of both the percent positivity and incidents,” said Dr. Peltier. “Unfortunately, what concerns me as the chief medical officer is that over the past three spikes we’ve had, we’re about two to three weeks after we see those numbers going up that our hospital tends to see the large n