One of Louisiana’s largest hospitals has brought in nearly three dozen health care workers from across the country to help treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19. A Catholic priest and nun blessed the hands of the health care workers who arrived at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in Baton Rouge on Monday. Louisiana is reporting 11,109 new cases since Friday, with 27 new deaths. Louisiana has one of the lowest coronavirus vaccination rates in the nation and is seeing one of the country’s worst COVID-19 spikes. More than 1,900 people are hospitalized with the coronavirus illness. That's seven times the number of COVID-19 patients a month ago.