Louisiana hospitals prepare for surge of COVID-19 patients
NY Post
NEW ORLEANS – The latest surge of coronavirus cases is hitting Southern states especially hard. This week, Louisiana reported its highest single-day spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations since the pandemic started.
“To see this current rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations is becoming increasingly scary,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a statement. Many hospitals in the state have once again put a hold on non-emergency surgeries. Top doctors say they can’t spare the beds.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.