Dr. John Vanchiere, Chief of LSU Health Shreveport Dept of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases: Children in Louisiana have DIED of COVID and more unfortunately will DIE. This is not a time for politics or threatening lawsuits about masks. MASKS SAVE LIVES!
.@LouisianaGov: There are 13 children hospitalized with COVID at Children's Hospital New Orleans right now, including 6 under the age of 2. Four children are in the ICU. They include a 3 month old boy, 23 month old girl, 8 y.o. girl and a 17 y.o. boy.
Dr. Joesph Kanter, top medical official of the Louisiana Department of Health: 50 hospitals across the state of Louisiana have reached out asking for help b/c they can NO LONGER adequately provide care for the amount of patients that need their services
Dr. John Vanchiere, Chief of LSU Health Shreveport Dept of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases: It's not SAFE for anyone in Louisiana to be in a public space with non vaccinated people w/o a mask on, esp school age children. This is a DIFFERENT pandemic than we dealt with a year ago
Dr. John Vanchiere, Chief of LSU Health Shreveport Dept of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases: This surge can only be dampened by wearing a mask. Educators have asked me, "How can you put faith in a mask?" b/c it works. I've been in the faces of 100s with COVID and not gotten COVID
Dr. John Vanchiere, Chief of LSU Health Shreveport Dept of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases: We have pregnant women on life support because they are so sick with COVID. A baby born premature with COVID to a mom that had minimal symptoms. This is a DIFFERENT pandemic.
Dr. John Vanchiere, Chief of LSU Health Shreveport Dept of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases discusses the safety of opening schools.
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