The Louisiana Department of Health reports 4,700 new cases of COVID today and hospitalizations increased by 135 to 1,524. The state’s positivity rate is 13.2 percent the highest since December of 2020. Ventilator usage also increased by 17 to 144.
Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise received his first vaccine shot last week, today he talks about his decision to get vaccinated. Jeff Palermo has more…
With staffing shortages and an increase in COVID patients, State Health Officer Dr. Joe Kanter says a number of hospitals are delaying elective surgeries for patients in an effort to ease caseloads on healthcare staff. Kanter says that can have serious repercussions.
Kanter says if you contract COVID right now there’s a greater than 85-percent chance it is the Delta variant.
Nicholls State University will receive nearly 500 thousand dollars in fines and penalties from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to research and categorize the ecological attributes of coastal ridges. Nicholls Dean of Sciences and Technology Dr. John Doucet says ridges are an integral part of the Louisiana coastline…
Cut 12 (11) “…on those ridges”