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Rapides among parishes at highest risk of community spread of COVID-19
Rapides chief med officer on delta variant: The rate of rise is exponential, and that’s the problem here.
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Hospital leaders warned on July 20 that they were preparing for an influx of new COVID-19 cases because of the spreading delta variant.
One week later, they ve been proven correct.
On Tuesday, Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital CEO Monte Wilson said the hospital had 29 to 35 hospitalizations since he spoke to Rapides Parish School Board members.
When he and Jason Cobb, the Rapides Regional Medical Center CEO, talked to the board, Cabrini had more than two dozen cases. More are coming into the emergency department, being diagnosed and discharged to isolate at home, he said.
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