Beginning Monday schoolteachers and staff will be eligible to get vaccinated for COVID. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The state is also expanding COVID vaccine eligibility to daycare staff and Louisianans aged 55 to 64 with certain health conditions. This will bring the total population eligible in Louisiana to nearly one-point-six million people. So far, 271-thousand residents have received both doses.

It’s another below-freezing morning with over 50-thousand utility customers without power. Water pressure is an issue in Lake Charles and Shreveport. In Shreveport, oil tankers full of water, and the National Guard are helping to provide water to hospitals. Willis-Knighton C-A-O Brain Crawford that’s helping them meet basic needs…
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The C-D-C says the U-S Life Expectancy Rate has fallen by one year to just under 78-years-old. The average life span for blacks has dropped by nearly three years and Hispanics two years. LSU Health New Orleans Chief of Community and Population Medicine Doctor Benjamin Springgate says that’s two races hit hard by the COVID pandemic…
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