LSU will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to enter Tiger Stadium for the home opener against McNeese on September 11th. LSU Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Catherine O’Neal says if you’re not vaccinated you can go get one today and have some additional protection entering the stadium. For those who choose not to get vaccinated but are otherwise healthy…
Unvaccinated individuals must produce a negative PCR test result that was taken within 72 hours of the game.
The state reports the highest-ever single-day fatality count for COVID 19-today with a 139.
The previous high was 129 on April 14, 2020. The state also reports 3,814 new COVID-19 cases and 2,856 hospitalizations. 91 percent of hospitalized patients are unvaccinated.
Ag Commissioner Mike Strain implores Louisianans not to take Ivermectin for COVID. Strain says there was some evidence at one point that the anti-parasitic might be effective against COVID, but those studies were retracted by reputable medical journals due to irregularities…
Strain says for some the medication can be fatal.
It took rescue crews three days to save five puppies from the bottom of a 65-foot dry well in Washington Parish. Director of the Humane Society of Louisiana Jeff Dorson says in his 33 years working with animals he’s never seen anything like it.
Dorson says the puppies were transported to Mandeville Animal Hospital where they remarkably are only being treated for parasites and minor skin issues.