State Immunization Director Dr. Frank Welch sounds optimistic that the general public will have received their COVID vaccines by late-spring. He also says a vaccine could begin being administered to frontline healthcare workers at their workplace in Louisiana within days of it receiving FDA approval, possibly even by the end of the year. Then for the rest of us…
A number of vaccines all seem to be nearing competition.
Hurricane Zeta knocked out power to more than 480,000 Entergy Customers, and two weeks later power has been restored. Entergy Spokesperson David Freese says it took a large team to get the lights back on.
A 54-year-old Our Lady of The Lake Doctor faces a simple battery charge after allegedly hitting and then verbally assaulting a Southern University student who was jogging by the LSU Lakes in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge police spokesman Sergeant L’Jean Mckneely says Shane McKinney claims his elbow contacted the accuser as she jogged by on a narrow sidewalk and that simple battery requires intentional use of force or violence. But there were also accusations that McKinney used racial language, a claim Mckneely says currently lacks evidence.