hospitalizations up in acadiana

hospitalizations up in acadiana

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Acadiana has nearly 200 patients hospitalized with covid-19, with an average of 10 infected patients a day being hospitalized in the past weeknews 1's cassie schirm is outside lafayette general one of the hospitals in our region keeping busy.

Cassie?

Tha's right acadiana is second to the shreveport area for largest covid 19 hospital population in the state making health officials worried about overloading the hospitals in the area and taking a look at the trends that are helping the spread.

3 "ther's a lot of virus transmission our community right now."dr tina stefanski with the louisiana health department says this transmission is taking a toll on acadiana hospitals."w're seeing an increase in hospitalizations over the last couple of weeks here in acadiana on the floor and in the icu."the total hospitalizations are 58% higher than the regio's april 10 peak, and the've doubled in just the past 11 days from 95 patients on june 26.and hospitals like lady of our loudes in lourdes in lafayette are feeling the pressure.chief medical officer dr. henry kaufman of lourdes"we have surpassed where we were at the peak of the pandemic back in april.

Fortunately we have not seen that reflected in icu but w're waiting with bated breath for the potential for that to happen."lafayette general is also concerned with the numbers but the're seeing even more icu patients.

Chief medical officer dr. amanda logue of lgh "w're seeing a much bigger jump in numbers than we were anticipating at this time w're also the lowest in our state region with available icu beds so were using a lot more icu beds this time around as well so that certainly concerned for me and my hospital"even with the higher number of people in the hospital both doctors say their hospitals are more prepared now then they were a few months ago.

"we have a better understanding of the resources that w're gonna need to use the ppe the personnel the surge capacity for both regular units in the icu" now health officials are saying i's a community spread here in the area and tha's why i's important now more than ever to mask up and social distance to help slow the spread so we do't overwhelm our health care system here..

In lafayette 'm cassie schirm news 15.

Statewide hospitalizations fell by three to 1,022, while the number of patients on ventilators also decreased today by four to 105.

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