As the COVID pandemic rages on, the funeral industry has seen families hold multiple funerals in a short period of time. Brooke Thorington has more.
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LSU President William Tate will take part in a briefing at the White House this afternoon where he and others will meet with President Biden and his Covid 19 Response Team to discuss the success of mitigation strategies in the battle against the coronavirus. Tate says LSU’s strategies have worked, noting that more than 82-percent of the university’s student body has been vaccinated, along with monthly testing protocols in place to monitor the presence of the virus on campus.
As Nicholas continues on its east, northeastwardly track, State Climatologist Barry Keim says bands of rain will only continue to increase rainfall totals for southeast and central parts of the state.
Keim says the slow movement of Nicholas is allowing the storm to saturate areas of the state, even more so than south Louisiana already is.
Senator Bill Cassidy is taking a staunch approach to those who. for whatever reason. are shunning COVID-19 approved vaccines in favor of ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that is used to treat river blindness and intestinal roundworm infection in humans.
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Cassidy says if anything, there are far lower hospitalizations and deaths for those who have been vaccinated, versus the number of deaths for those hospitalized with the coronavirus and who had relied on ivermectin.