Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is entering the state this week. Matt Doyle has the story.
The state reports 65 COVID-19 fatalities today, the largest daily total since July and the statewide total of confirmed deaths is 6,775. Hospitalizations are just shy of 16-hundred and Congressman-elect Luke Letlow has been admitted to the hospital with COVID, on Friday he tested positive.
The State Department of Education plans to use eight million dollars provided by the state legislature from CARES Act funding to purchase 23-hundred new Chromebooks for public school students. Superintendent Cade Brumley says they are working on a plan to purchase and distribute the devices to school systems in need by next Spring.
After sunset tonight you will want to take a look at the western skies and view a phenomenon dubbed the Christmas Star. LSU Professor of Astronomy Dr. Tabetha Boyajian (boy-ah-gin) says it is not actually a star but planets Jupiter and Saturn aligning closer together.
If you miss it tonight, you’ll have to wait until 2080.