A St. Tammany Parish state Senator proposes two bills to protect citizens from discrimination based upon their COVID vaccination status. Senator Patrick McMath, of Covington, says his Senate Bill 1, is a proposed Constitutional Amendment; adding vaccine status to the list of things one cannot be discriminated against…:
Cut 10 (10) “…a very basic example.”
McMath says Senate Bill two would allow acceptance of a COVID-19 antibody test result in the satisfaction of any requirement for proof of vaccine.

The phone app, LA Wallet, can now display negative COVID test results. Orion Laboratories President Rachel Slaughter says after you are tested, ask that the test results be sent to Orion…
cut 9 (07) “…download the app”
For more information visit orion-dot-healthcare.

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine professor Doctor Jeffrey Carter has helped develop a spray-on skin that lowers the mortality rates from burns. Carter says they use a small portion of a person’s healthy skin to make a spray that can quickly create new skin. He says the spray-on skin has cut recovery times and hospital stays and there’s an added benefit…
cut 15 (10) “….looks like”
Carter says he’s working to make sure first responders around the state have these burn kits.

Congressman Troy Carter is encouraging 10th and 11th graders in his Second Congressional District to submit an essay for his first annual Black History Essay Contest. He says reaching young people is as important as ever to truly start to realize Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision.
Cut 5 (12) “…not repeating history.”
the contest will close on March 8th.