The state reported nearly six thousand new COVID-19 cases on Friday. Governor Edwards says for the last couple of days 28-percent of all new cases are in children and this is troubling with schools re-opening…
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39-year-old Jessica Cooper of Lake Charles is among the nearly three thousand people hospitalized in Louisiana with COVID. The single mom has an eleven-year-old daughter named Justus. Since her child is not eligible to be vaccinated, Cooper made the hard choice for Justus to learn virtually this year…
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Flu shots are now available at all Walmart Pharmacies in Louisiana. Walmart Health and Wellness Director Mohamed Salem says even though flu season is still weeks away, now is the time to get protected…
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Salem says you can get the flu shot and the COVID vaccine during the same visit at one of their pharmacies.

Get ready for a hot weekend, with high temperatures in the mid-90s and heat indices reaching 110-degrees for some parts of the state. State Climatologist Barry Keim says a high-pressure system is settling in over the region and it is pushing tropical storm systems away from the Gulf of Mexico.
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