Today is the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in Louisiana, Brooke Thorington talks with a physician about the early days of COVID.
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Louisiana’s pre-GRAMMY celebration is going all virtual this year and you can stream it live tonight starting at 7 PM. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says Attorney General Jeff Landry’s handling of alleged sexual harassment and sexist behavior by one of his top aides could damage his rumored future run for Governor. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Today is the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Louisiana. Chief of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health New Orleans Dr. Julio Figueroa says looking back most likely COVID was already spreading in February, well before testing was available.
Figueroa says unlike other viruses, COVID-19 is unique in that some people are asymptomatic but are still able to spread the virus.
Now that we know the main route of transmission is through respiratory droplets that spread when you are in close contact with a carrier, carnival season only enabled the virus to circulate faster in Louisiana.
Five days later after the first case was confirmed, the state reported its first death from the virus a 58-year-old man in Orleans Parish.
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This year Louisiana’s pre-GRAMMY celebration is going all-virtual and will be streamed live online tonight starting at 7 PM.
Louisiana artists account for more than a dozen nominations this year. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says they’ll have a few of those artists like Bobby Rush, Kenny Wayne Shepard, and Sweet Cecilia playing tonight’s show…
The show will be streamed live on Louisiana Travels’ social media pages.
Nungesser says they’ll be live from the Mint in the French Quarter but the program will highlight attractions, history, and artists from all over the state.
Nungesser says they’re excited to put on a great program but it is hopefully the first, and last time they have to do the show all virtually.
The GRAMMYs kicks off Sunday at 7 PM.
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It might have LeBron James’s team that scored the most points in Sunday’s NBA All-Star game, but the real winner is Historically Black Colleges and Universities that’s receiving three million dollars from the game. President of Grambling State University, Rick Gallot says even Major League Baseball is hosting an event this weekend focusing on Grambling and Florida A&M.
Gallot says 90-percent of students at Grambling receive some type of financial aid and their portion of the NBA’s donation will go directly towards students.
There’s been a lot of attention on HBCU’s recently and Gallot credits Kamala Harris for being the first graduate of an HBCU to become Vice President for putting them in the spotlight.
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The Attorney General’s Office releases the sexual harassment complaint filed against top aide Pat Magee that resulted in his 38-day suspension and the 20,000 dollar docking of his salary.
The complaint includes numerous allegations of harassment and sexist comments by Magee, who still works for the office. Political Analyst Bernie Pinsonat says the report may be costly for AG Jeff Landry.
The complaint was filed on November 20th. Among other things, the report alleges a number of times when Magee discussed women’s appearance in relation to situations that impacted their career advancement. An internal investigation conducted by an outside law firm into the matter reported Magee’s comments were “joking in nature” and “there were no allegations nor findings of any requests for sexual favors; inappropriate workplace touching; nor sexual overtures.”
Pinsonat says like the Johnny Anderson scandal that plagued Governor Edwards’ run for reelection Landry will be haunted by this situation should be run for Governor in 2023.
Anderson, a one-time aide to the Governor, resigned following the accusations by a staffer.
Pinsonat says the fact that Magee continues to work for the AG despite the allegations could prove to be a problem down the road.
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After losing a weekend series to Oral Roberts, the 15th ranked LSU Baseball team returns to the diamond tonight to begin a five-game week as they will host Texas Southern. After scoring one run in a loss on Sunday, Coach Paul Mainieri is eager for Cade Doughty to return to the starting line-up after missing the weekend series with a left shoulder injury…
Mainieri is also looking for more consistency from the bullpen. He says Blake Money has looked good and so have a couple of the other new relievers…
The Tigers enter tonight’s game with a 9-3 record. Mainieri says despite the series loss to Oral Roberts, starting pitchers A-J Labas and Landon Marceaux pitched well