The state’s largest healthcare system, Ochsner Health says the vaccination rate among employees has increased to 81-percent since their announcement of mandatory vaccinations and the FDA’s full approval of the Pfizer vaccine. Ochsner Health CEO Warner Thomas says the deadline to comply is October 29th.
The movie “Heart of a Lion” based on the life of boxer George Foreman will now be shot in Shreveport rather than New Orleans because of Ida. Sony line producer, Wendy Williams, says the film will likely be shot in two blocks.
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Williams says the film starring Khris Davis, of “Detroit” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” fame, will reflect on Foreman’s life from the time he was 11 until he was 45. Fifteen hundred extras will be hired locally in Shreveport to take part in the movie.
Today is Governor John Bel Edwards 55th birthday. The state’s 56th governor has nearly two and a half years left in his second and final term. During his monthly, “Ask the Governor” radio show, Edwards was quizzed about running for President one day. The governor says he doesn’t see a presidential campaign in his future
According to AARP’s nursing home dashboard, in the four-week period ending August 22n resident COVID cases increased by 463 and staff cases by more than a thousand from the previous four-week period. The organization’s Andrew Muhl says the vaccination rate among nursing home residents in Louisiana is 83-percent and, 48-percent for staff as of August 22nd.