Registration for “Shot at a Million,” Louisiana’s vaccine incentive lottery, begins at noon. Governor John Bel Edwards says to qualify you must have taken at least one COVID vaccine shot. You can register online at shot-at-a-million-dot-com or call…

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Drawings will begin July 14^th and be held every week through the grand prize drawing on August 4^th.

The 2021 KIDS COUNT report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows Louisiana’s rankings are towards the bottom. President and CEO Lisa Hamilton says they look at four areas, Economic Well-Being, Education, Health, and Family and Community. Hamilton says the 2019 data shows the state at 49^th poverty-wise.

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The Louisiana Legislative Auditor finds just over a million dollars in unemployment benefits were paid out to 374 dead individuals since March of 2020. Data Analytics Manager Chris Magee says the Louisiana Workforce Commission does have a process to weed out dead applicants and managed to catch roughly 8,000 with their current system…

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Researchers at LSU- Health New Orleans have created a compound that mimics a protective chemical in our brain and retina of the eye and discover it can also protect against COVID. Director of the Neuroscience Center Dr. Nicolas Bazan experimented with compound and its effect on the lung.

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