Starting Monday Louisiana will start paying an additional 600 dollars a week in unemployment insurance benefits to those who qualify. Matt Doyle has the story.
A drive-thru COVID-19 testing site exclusively for first responders and healthcare workers has been established in Shreveport. The site will be open, weather permitting, from 9 AM to 4 PM daily at the Walmart parking lot in the 1100 block of Shreveport Barksdale Highway. The drive thru testing site is the first of its kind in the state.
The COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in an unprecedented dilemma for Christian, Jewish, and Muslim congregations during one of the holiest times of the year. LSU Associate Professor of Religious Studies Michael Pasquier (pass-cay) says some religious communities are more prepared than others for the challenge of conducting services for an audience at home.
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Pasquier says a message from religious leaders to congregation members can go a long way in letting them know they are doing the right thing by their faith by staying home.
A team from LSU is creating personal protective equipment for healthcare workers including much-needed masks and gowns. LSU Biomedical Engineering senior Meagan Moore says they’ve been hammering out ways to do field-expedient work with base-level materials including a donation of old billboards to make gowns.