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Louisiana hospitals, medical staff stretched thin amid virus

by Associated Press
| April 3, 2020 11:27 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As Louisiana's coronavirus outbreak exceeded 10,000 confirmed cases Friday, the state's hospitals and health care workers worry if they'll have enough people and equipment to meet the ever-growing demands of an epidemic expected to start overwhelming some medical facilities within a week.

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