LISTEN: COVID-19 Update with Dr. Robert Peltier for Aug. 3, 2021

In this special "North Oaks Health Notes" COVID-19 segment for August 3, 2021, Dr. Robert Peltier and Tangi 96.5 FM's Johnny Chauvin recap North Oaks President/CEO Michele Sutton's remarks at Governor John Bel Edwards' Aug. 2 press conference regarding the impacts of Louisiana's fourth COVID-19 surge on hospital operations, patients with other health care needs and health care workers. Dr. Peltier also urges everyone to go above and beyond the masking mandates issued Aug. 2 and also explains why it is in your best interest and your family's best interest to get vaccinated.

Dr. Peltier, who is an internal medicine physician and tropical medicine specialist, serves as chief medical officer of North Oaks Health System in Hammond, Louisiana.

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