Louisiana Department of Health: COVID-19 hospitalizations double in one week amid Omicron surge

Louisiana Department of Health: COVID-19 hospitalizations double in one week amid Omicron surge. “The Louisiana Department of Health announces that 449 people in Louisiana are hospitalized with COVID-19 – a figure that has doubled in the last week. The last time we reported this many COVID-19 hospitalizations was mid-October, as we came down from our third and then-worst COVID-19 surge. Eighty percent of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 are not fully vaccinated.”