Health officials have said if COVID hospitalizations do not go down soon, more mitigation measures could be issued thus hurting the restaurant industry again as they try to recover Brooke Thorington has more.
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The CDC is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated, citing mounting numbers of severe cases among soon-to-be moms.
LSU New Orleans Chief of Maternal-Fetal Health Dr. Robert Maupin says Ochsner reports 11 pregnant women are currently hospitalized in their system, none of them are vaccinated.
Maupin says some good news is that it does not appear infected mothers can transmit the virus to fetuses, but they are seeing a number of newborns getting infected by the family shortly after birth.
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Health officials say it’s the Delta variant of COVID that is responsible for a majority of breakthrough cases among the vaccinated. Ochsner Health Director of Hospital Quality Dr. Sandra Kemmerly says there’s another trend in breakthrough cases when someone was inoculated in the vaccine rollout.
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LSU’s Deep Drug artificial intelligence program discovered COVID treatment is headed to clinical trials after animal trials showed it’s effective against both variants and long-COVID.
LSU Computer Sciences Professor Dr. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Sue-prat-ick Moo-co-pod-yay) says their AI program saves researchers time by running simulations of various drug combinations against a chosen disease.
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