LSU President William Tate met with the Biden Administration yesterday and briefed the President on the school’s multi-tiered approach of COVID mitigation. 

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Covid hospitalizations are continuing a slow downward spiral in Louisiana. As of yesterday, they were down more than 90 to just over 15-hundred.  It’s been 16 days since an increase in the number of Covid-related hospitalizations in the Bayou. State health officials are reporting more than 23-hundred new cases of Covid-19 across Louisiana and 77 new deaths.

Researchers at Tulane University have developed an inhaled vaccine against bacterial pneumonia. Dr. Jay Kolls, a corresponding author of the study, says the medication may help curb a disturbing death toll.  Kolls says the inhaled vaccine, whether in liquid or powder form, would offer a double-pronged attack against bacterial pneumonia.

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According to AARP’s nursing home dashboard in the four-week period ending August 22ⁿ resident COVID-19 cases increased by 463 and staff cases by more than a thousand.  Deaths climbed to 49. AARP Louisiana Associate Director of Advocacy, Andrew Muhl, says the vaccination rate among nursing home residents in Louisiana is 83-percent, and for staff it’s 48-percent as of August 22^nd.

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