Staffing shortages and a 4th major COVID surge in 17 months are taking a heavy toll on Louisiana’s health care workers, leading many to suffer poor mental health. Louisiana State Nurses Association President Ecoee (E-coy) Rooney says under normal circumstances nursing is a rigorous, but rewarding profession. However…
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Rooney says many of these hospitalizations could have been avoided. Ochsner Health says they now have over one thousand COVID-19 patients hospitalized across their system, 90-percent are unvaccinated. Some people have decided not to get vaccinated because they already had COVID, but Ochsner CEO Warner Thomas says the vaccine remains your best protection…
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The Louisiana Civil Rights Trail continues to grow. Today another marker is unveiled and on the anniversary of the beginning of a historic demonstration. Brooke Thorington has more
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A major tourism event is officially off the calendar for 2021. There will not be a New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in October as planned due to the rising number of new COVID cases in the Gulf South. Organizers hope Jazz Fest can return in the spring of 2022.