Interesting 9 min. video and transcript in link of the struggles a hospital is having in Louisiana hospital. A nurse who has not yet been vaccinated tells why.
Louisiana has the nation's highest per capita infections, driven in large part by the extremely contagious Delta variant. At the same time, Louisiana also has one of the country's lowest vaccination rates.
William Brangham:
Right after, Dr. Brierre is back upstairs in the ICU. Just over a month ago, there were 10 COVID patients in the hospital. The day we visited, there were 129. It's a surge that's caught Dr. Brierre somewhat by surprise.
Dr. Stephen Brierre:
I thought we were close to done. I knew Delta was going to be a little bit of a surge, especially in Louisiana, given our low vaccination rates. But I had no idea that the impact would be almost as severe as the first surge that we saw.
Dr. Stephen Brierre:
1-R saying that — and this is ugly. I hate to talk about it. We need to expand the morgue.
