Governor John Bel Edwards says the state will receive 39-thousand COVID-19 vaccines this week and another 40-thousand shots will arrive next week. Frontline healthcare workers in Jefferson Parish, Shreveport, and Alexandria received the vaccination yesterday.

Aaron Bowman, a Black man from Monroe, and his attorneys are calling for justice and transparency in what they say is police brutality. Brooke Thorington explains
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Tulane says its researchers have developed a rapid COVID-19 saliva test that can be read by a smartphone app. Chair of Biotechnology Innovation at Tulane, Doctor Tony Hu, says the test must still receive F-D-A approval, but he says once approved…
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Hu and his associated developed a test platform where small amounts of the SARS Covid virus RNA can be detected in saliva.

The Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge has received a grant to participate in a study on why exercise makes some people healthier than others. Director of Biomedical Imaging at Pennington, Doctor Owen Carmichael, says at the end of the study they hope to tailor exercise programs to individuals…
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Carmichael hopes to recruit participants in February or March.