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implementing this in her city. here in new york city, it will be mandated september 13th. the big practical question, who enforces. vanessa, thanks very much. to louisiana where our lady of the lake hospital just admitted a record 32 new covid patients in the past 24 hours. according to a president who spokesperson, 175 people currently hospitalized there with the virus. 61 of them in the icu. across the street at children s hospital, eight children hospitalized with covid-19 including a baby just three weeks old. joining me is dr. christopher thomas, a critical care physician at the hospital. thank you for taking time this morning. you said in your hospital you re becoming victims of the unvaccinated. we ve heard before this is a pandemic of the willfully unvaccinated, right? because there is a widely available and efficacious, more than one, vaccine. are you finding that, as the number of infections go up, the
so it s like he was in distress. of course. and and, you know, as i was reading about what you ve gone through, you were calling for days for answers. for just just to know where your husband was. yes. yes. i was. and was told that i have to find him myself because two days later, then the louisiana department of health, they called and said that, oh, we have your husband. i said you have my husband? yeah, we have him at the indoor track facility at the lsu campus. and i say, no, i have my husband. he s at the hospital. he is at the our lady of the lake hospital. i say i found him myself. you know, instead of waiting on them calling me to let me know where my husband was. i did it myself. i didn t have to i didn t wait for them to call. they called after the fact. and that is very unacceptable.
been roeeling under the latest covid surge and they are receiving much-needed help from professionals highly trained in battle against enemy forces. this is a group of 20 military doctors arriving at our lady of the lake hospital in baton rouge, louisiana, last week. currently there are eight teams deployed by the department of defense across hard-hit areas of louisiana, mississippi and alabama. joining me, u.s. air force captain lowe, and a pulmonary critical care physician at our lady of the lake hospital. dr. lowe, i want to start with you. you re ten days into this 30-day deployment, if you will. just tell me about what you ve seen. well, first, i would just like to say that, honestly, my team, not just doctors, but nurses and respiratory techs as
mississippi medical center in jackson and also at another medical facility in the northern part of the state. next door, in louisiana, that state s government has also turned to the federal government for help. a 33-member federal disaster medical assistance team was deployed to baton rouge to our lady of the lake hospital, which is one of the major-medical centers in the state of louisiana. that team has doctors, nurses, paramedics, respiratory therapists, even pharmacists trying to give that louisiana hospital some relief. trying to keep them from falling apart, at the seams. the ap reporting today that hospitals in louisiana are under such intense strain right now because of the ballooning number of very sick people with covid. that some louisiana hospitals have started doing the unthinkable. they have started turning away even patients with heart attacks or strokes which, as you know, are patients who need very, very timely care. but there are simply not enough resources to care fo