LISTEN: COVID-19 Daily Update - April 17, 2020

Dr. Peltier speaks to efforts to ramp up the state's health care system and parameters for reinstating restrictions should COVID-19 numbers spike. He also notes data that appears to indicate that COVID-19 is eleven times more deadly than the flu. 

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 April 17 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