Louisiana reports, by far, it’s single largest 24-hour increase in deaths today with 129 new COVID fatalities, bringing the state’s total fatalities to over 1,000. The jump is significant but Governor Edwards has cautioned in the past that these numbers do not reflect the total deaths over the past 24 hours, and many of these deaths likely occurred over the last week or more but are just not being marked as COVID until now.
The PMAC at LSU has turned into a production facility for PPE. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Covington Republican Representative Mark Wright is calling on Governor Edwards not to further extend the stay at home order that is set to end April 30th. Wright says it’s an economic imperative that Louisiana being to reopen and says the state needs to look at easing restrictions like our neighbors in Texas and Oklahoma and starting May 1st reopen as much as possible.
Federal models call for the continuing of stay at home orders nationwide through May to avoid another major reoccurrence of COVID-19.
LSU Health New Orleans begins a clinical trial testing the effectiveness of using hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin on COVID patients. The combo has anecdotal reports of being an effective treatment, but Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Meredith Clement says the drugs are not without their side effects, so patients will be closely monitored.