catherine o'neal, chief medical officer of our lady of the lake medical center in baton rouge.ting help from that federal team. doctor catherine o'neal. >> thank you for having us. >> you did an interview with a no local news station that i saw that just made my heart just sink into my stomach. you said that you're starting to feel like you and your hospital are not able to provide either the white standards of care already, because your stretched so thin from the number of covid patients are handling. i just wanted to ask if that's true? if you could explain to our audience what you mean by that? >> sure. so, today, we have 189 people with covid-19 in our hospital. our hospital usually runs 600 to 700 patients at any given time. we have 68 patients with covid-19, just in our icu. our icu usually has about 90 patients and it. so, you can see that this creep of care into our usual number of patients has caused a studio lake airport people. people who need tumors taken out. people who need to have their back plane relieved and are crippled by the pain. all of those surgeries have

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catherine o'neal is the chief medical officer at our lady of the lake in baton rouge. >> it's differentbut in many ways it's the same. >> reporter: she was a resident in 2005 during that deadly storm. >> it's a different time. it is a different place. and yet this morning it felt very similar because all communications were down today for the majority of the day and it felt so eerie to know that people were trapped in their houses. i expect that just like katrina there will be this sort of storm passes and then this wave of people needing care. >> reporter: that category 5 hurricane ravaged the gulf coast, taking the lives of more than 1,800 people, leaving more than $100 billion worth of damage in its wake. still it remains the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history. while some buildings did collapse this time around new orleans was largely spared from that kind of widespread devastation. but residents are now faced with a blackout that could last for weeks. the utilities rebuilt after katrina did not hold this massive transmission tower mangled, power lines falling into the missis

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