The state is reporting nearly 34,000 of the 43,000 people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Louisiana have recovered. Along with those figures the Department of Health also announced 6 new COVID deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities up to 2,831, along with 234 new positive cases.
After a sharp decline in vaccinations, state health officials urge residents to get back on track with preventative healthcare.
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Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome weighed in on the nationwide calls for policing policy changes this morning on Talk Louisiana, saying one major obstacle to reform efforts are the police unions. Broome says cops with traceable records of alarming behavior are often the ones victimizing their communities, and the unions can make it difficult to fire those bad apples…
Broome has previously expressed frustration with the union’s resistance to implementing post-Alton Sterling police reforms.
The 2020 Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is estimated to span 77-hundred miles this year, the seventh largest on record. LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalais says the problem has gotten worse in recent years due to heavy rains in the Midwest.