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louisiana hospitals before ida hit. how much does a catastrophic storm add to an already desperate situation? how much does it tax you, the hospital, the system? it s tough, because we still are seeing new covid patients that are coming in. that s not changing. the patients that were already here in the hospital, they re still here for the most part. the thing that we re noticing today that we were expecting was that patients that had been home on oxygen with covid, as their power is out, they run out of oxygen, because one of the ways they get oxygen is through something called a concentrator that requires electricity. as the electricity is out, they start to run out of their oxygen supply. so they come here because they don t have power and they re looking for oxygen. there are shelters, there s one at southern university that they can call 211 and they can see if they have availability there so they can go and plug in their own concentrator so they can

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