Louisiana is in the midst of a third major wave of COVID cases and medical professionals are begging the public to recommit to masking and social distancing before they run out of healthcare capacity.
Shreveport based Willis Knighton Dr. Jennifer Prime is one of them. She said to date she has cared for 750 COVID patients and lost 92 of them.
“Many of these people we have taken care of for weeks, we know them and we know their families,” said Prime. “We can see that they are getting sicker and sicker and they know it as well and for the first time I have nothing to offer.”
Prime said she’s having end-of-life discussions with people who you’d never think would die so young.
“For the first time in my career, I have code status discussions with 45-year-olds the first day that they come into the hospital. They always cry because they are young and have never considered what they would want at the end of their life,” said Prime.
She asks everyone to please get back to mitigating the spread. She said she drives home every day to see people coming out of packed restaurants and gyms.
“It feels like there is such a disconnect between the war we are fighting inside the hospital and the life that everyone else is living,” said Prime.
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