center, where there were ambulances lined up. he said recently paramedics have waited between 30 minutes and three hours. we kind of just have to tell the hospital, like, look, find something we don t care where you put this patient. you have to put them somewhere because we need to run emergencies. reporter: despite transporting covid-positive patients weekly, medic britney decou is not vaccinated. you re up close with it. does that not change your opinion? no. me and my family are very religious. we pray a lot. we trust god. reporter: you know, louisiana set another record today highest covid hospitalization rate of any point at the pandemic. and that s impacting non-covid patients. just yesterday, a man in central louisiana had a heart attack, went to a community hospital, and they said, you have to go to a larger hospital for advanced care. they called around for two hours, they looked 100 miles around and they could not find a single available bed. norah. o donnell:
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