Governor John Bel Edwards expects the state will begin COVID vaccinations within 48 hours of receiving its first shipment. Edwards says health care workers are the first priority…
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Edwards expects 79-thousand vaccines will be available in Louisiana once the F-D-A gives approval, possibly as early as tomorrow.

Sixty percent of people questioned by a Pew Research Survey say they plan to get vaccinated for COVID. But for the other 40 percent can your employer require you to be inoculated? According to Loyola Law Professor Dane Ciolino in Louisiana the short answer is yes.
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The only exception would be if an employee has a disability or religious belief that could protect them under certain federal laws.

LSU Football Coach Ed Orgeron confirmed today that star freshman Tight End Arik Gilbert has opted out for the remainder of the season. Orgeron says he met with Gilbert yesterday…
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Gilbert is the seventh player to opt out this season.

New U-S Census Bureau data finds the marriage and divorce rates have declined since 2009 in Louisiana and across the nation. LSU Health New Orleans Professor Clinical Psychiatry Doctor Richard Costa says younger people are feeling less pressure to get married, which has led to fewer marriages and bad breakups…
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