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'There are no beds left': Louisiana hospital says state in 'darkest days' of pandemic

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BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana’s largest hospital issued an urgent warning this week, saying it has reached "the darkest days" of the COVID-19 pandemic after running out of ICU beds to treat ill patients."When you come inside our walls, it is quite obvious to you that these are the darkest days of this pandemic.

We are no longer giving adequate care to patients," Dr. Catherine O’Neal, chief medical officer at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, told reporters on Monday.

Any non-emergency surgery that might require an overnight stay is being delayed at the hospital. Louisiana reported 2,350 COVID-19 hospitalizations as of Friday.

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