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LISTEN: COVID-19 Daily Update - May 13, 2020

LISTEN: COVID-19 Daily Update - May 13, 2020

As a Tier I hospital, Dr. Peltier shares that North Oaks Medical Center has received doses of the experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir (RDV)to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients who meet criteria. Other topics discussed include reasons for continuing to mask in public as we enter Phase I of reopening Louisiana and the importance of addressing time-sensitive health care needs now to prevent adverse consequences or worsening of chronic health conditions.

The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly evolving. Tangi 96.5 FM and KAJUN 107.1 FM's Johnny Chauvin gets the weekday COVID-19 update for May 13 from Dr. Robert Peltier with North Oaks Health System in Hammond, Louisiana. Dr. Peltier, who is an internal medicine physician and tropical medicine specialist, serves as chief medical officer of North Oaks Health System.

Listen to more updates at: www.tangi965.com/interviews and www.northoaks.org/coronavirus.