Another COVID variant has made its way into Louisiana as seven Lamba variants have been sequenced 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.
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Kamil is confident the vaccines available in the U-S can provide protection against the Lambda variant.

Interfor Corporation announces it will invest eight million dollars to revive the idled Georgia Pacific sawmill near DeQuincy. The governor’s office says the project will create 170 new jobs. Southwest Louisiana Economic Development Alliance CEO George Swift says the mill was shut down last May due to the pandemicCut 3 (11) “…in particular.”

Interfor plans to restart operations in the first half of 2022.

Nursing shortages are exacerbating the impact of the Delta surge. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Hundreds of angry parents went to the St. Tammany Parish School Board meeting last night to protest the school system’s policy that calls on all students five years old and up to wear a mask. One parent called the mask mandate communism. Superintendent Frank Jabbia told the anti-maskers that the mandate is not an option and they should make their complaints to the governor’s office.