Governor Edwards will announce whether the state will loosen COVID public health restrictions this afternoon, and the data appears to support potentially moving into Phase Three. Last week Edwards said our trajectory looked promising and Public Affairs Research Council Policy Director Dr. Steven Procopio says the data indicates a cautious loosening of restrictions is justified right now.
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While coronavirus vaccines are proven to reduce COVID severity, and it hasn’t been proven to reduce transmissibility. Ochsner System Medical Director of Hospital Quality Dr. Sandra Kemmerly says the reason why they can’t confirm because transmissibility it hard to measure in clinical trials.
An LSU study comparing traffic in ten states before and various stages during the pandemic, found that overall traffic volume decreased by at 48 percent. LSU Civil Engineering Professor Brian Wolshon (Wool-shon) says later in the study an increase or decrease in traffic did not follow respectively an increase or decrease in case numbers but did indicate to researchers how the virus was spread.
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is reminding crawfish connoisseurs to clean up properly after your boil to preserve other sea life. DEQ spokesperson Jean Kelly says never place shells or boil water into a ditch or waterway because it can seriously harm or even kill fish. Kelly says proper disposal is vital to preserving our favorite pastime.