LSU’s associate athletic director of football recruiting, Sharon Lewis, tells USA Today she will file several lawsuits against the school, claiming she was mistreated for trying to stop sexual harassment. Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins says the allegations are explosive, including the details of an argument Lewis had with former football coach Les Miles.
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Lewis says the argument was over Miles’s alleged desire to have blond women or light-skinned black women on the recruiting staff that he considered prettier.
The LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau says 7,800 Louisiana voters have left the Republican Party since the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. LSU Political Science Professor Robert Hogan says this tracks with nationwide stats show roughly 100,000 Republicans have unregistered.
More than 800,000 Louisianans have completed their vaccine series. State Health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter says this equates to just over 18 percent of the state’s population and those folks have a near-perfect but not guaranteed level of protection. That’s why we need herd immunity.
Herd immunity is thought to be 70 percent.
Willis-Knighton is one of 120 sites nationwide that will participate in a clinical trial for Regeneron’s COVID treatment. Children’s Health Services Director Dr. Joseph Bocchini says even with estimates that with the current vaccination rate we could hit herd immunity by late summer, he says there will still be a need for COVID treatments.
126 “breakthrough” cases of fully vaccinated people getting COVID in Louisiana have been recorded.