COVID-19 vaccine eligibility has been expanded in Louisiana to include everyone 16 and older and who has a health condition that makes them more at risk of seriously getting sick or dying from the virus. This includes overweight individuals and smokers and those with asthma, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

Pharmacists received a heads up the state would increase eligibility for the COVID vaccine. Brooke Thorington reports pharmacies are prepared.
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Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the first COVID death in Louisiana and since then over nine-thousand people have died from complications of the virus. But advancements have been made in treating the disease…
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That’s Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Chief of Hospital Medicine, Doctor Mike Sewell.

Today the Senate Select Committee on Women and Children meet to discuss the Husch Blackwell report that details the mishandling of sexual misconduct and assault cases at LSU. Franklinton Senator Beth Mizell says the report was eye-opening…
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LSU has said they plan to implement the 18 recommendations made by Husch Blackwell.