The Delta variant has apparently prompted more unvaccinated individuals to seek out the COVID vaccine. Governor John Bel Edwards says the number of people being vaccinated now has grown by 300-percent during this surge…
Because of this record surge in cases, LSU faculty want the school to either mandate vaccines or allow teachers to go all online for the semester. History Professor Meredith Veldman the pandemic is at worse levels now than it ever was in spring 2020 when the school went entirely remote.
On Friday President Tate said he would mandate vaccines once they receive full FDA approval. Otherwise, there was no official response from the board to faculty members
Seven Lamba COVID variants have been sequenced in Louisiana so far, all clustered in Northwest Louisiana. LSU Health Shreveport Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Jeremy Kamil says Lambda is not an offshoot of the now-dominant Delta variant.
The Lambda variants most likely crossed the border from Texas.