With COVID hospitalizations surpassing three-thousand this week, Governor Edwards says there are now ten times as many people in the hospital with COVID than there were at the start of July. L-D-H says 91-percent are unvaccinated. Edwards says there are some waiting for full authorization from the FDA to take a vaccine. But he warns if you get hospitalized with COVID you’ll be treated by therapeutics under emergency use authorization…
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President Biden says nursing homes could lose federal funding if they do not make it mandatory for staff to be vaccinated against COVID. Louisiana AARP director Denise Bottcher applauds the decision…
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Healthcare experts say the drug Ivermectin should not be used to treat COVID because it’s ineffective against the disease. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education was set to discuss masks in schools yesterday, but the meeting ended early when a group of anti-maskers refused to wear a mask inside a state building…
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This means the governor’s indoor mask mandate is in effect for schools.