The Louisiana Department of Health protects and promotes health and ensures access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) â Louisiana, which has beaten back several spikes of the coronavirus disease, is seeing troubling new upticks in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations as the state struggles to persuade people to get vaccinated and the highly contagious delta variant increases its spread.
The increases are nowhere near the height of previous outbreaks, when more than 2,000 COVID-19 patients in Louisiana were hospitalized at a time and dozens of people died from the disease each day. But health care officials Thursday worried Louisiana could be headed in that direction as the more virulent delta variant takes hold and becomes the dominant virus strain regionwide.
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Jul 8, 2021 | 6:08 PM
State health officials believe the prevalence of the more dangerous Delta coronavirus variant and the state’s low vaccination rate is behind our recent concerning increase in COVID cases and hospitalizations.
State Health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter said after months of relatively low, stable COVID numbers we’ve seen 100 new COVID hospitalizations in just two weeks, and an increase in COVID incidents that have been increasing statewide for 18 days in seven of the state’s nine medical regions.
Percent positivity on new COVID tests has also jumped to 4% this last week from the previous rate of 3.1%
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