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What should I expect before visiting a test site?
You ll need to wear a mask onsite and stay in your car before getting testing.
For those 13 years and older, expect the site to have a self-administered nasal swab test. This allows you to swab your own nose on site while in your vehicle. Once that s done, you ll drop the sealed sample into a container on your way out of the drive-thru site.
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La. COVID-19 hospitalizations highest since April
LA COVID-19 hospitalizations highest since April By Kaitlin Rust | December 29, 2020 at 9:15 PM CST - Updated December 30 at 3:01 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Right now, Louisiana state health officials say they’re seeing the most COVID-19 hospitalizations across the state since April.
The most recent reports show 1,689 patients across the state, 218 of them are on ventilators.
”Although folks might not realize it, in terms of COVID, it’s actually is the most dangerous point in the whole pandemic for Louisiana right now,” Dr. Joseph Kanter with the Louisiana Health Department said.
With hospitalizations surpassing the summer peak, Kanter says there’s three reasons why he’s concerned: the unknown impact of the holidays, there’s more circulation of the virus than ever before, and that hospitals are already busy.
Thanks to the number of hurricanes hitting the state, a Louisiana company will be able to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine far faster than other states.
Louisianaâs biggest hospital systems, like Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, will get the vaccines directly from Pfizer once the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approves moving 3 million doses.
One day after a federal panel of medical experts blessed Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, the Baton Rouge area s largest hospit…
Thatâll be the case in most states with the larger systems getting medicine. But the smaller hospitals, the ones with fewer than 975 staffers in line to vaccinated, will have to quickly travel to those hospitals and fetch their doses, then get back to administer the injections.