You’ll need proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to get into Tiger Stadium for LSU football games this season. Matt Doyle has the story.
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After hearing cries from a well on his property in Washington Parish, the owner call for help. Brooke Thorington has more on the three-day rescue.
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LSU will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to enter Tiger Stadium for football games this season. LSU Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Catherine O’Neal says this added layer of protection means those who are fully vaccinated can feel pretty safe going to the game.
O’Neal says those who are elderly or immunocompromised should not go to the game even if vaccinated. She says crowds won’t be safe for those individuals until more people are vaccinated.
O’Neal says if you are 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.
O’Neal says venues that require proof of vaccination or a negative test allow people to get closer to a sense of normalcy while remaining relatively safe…
Season ticket holders who want a refund must email tickets@lsu.edu by Friday.
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Jameis Winston made a strong case that he should be the starting quarterback for the Saints in last night’s preseason win over Jacksonville. Winston threw for 123 yards and two touchdowns and just one incompletion on ten attempts. Coach Sean Payton is not providing a timeline on when he’ll announce a starter…
Winston got the start after coming off the bench last week. It was the first game he started since 2019 when he was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Second-year wide receiver Marquez Callaway also had a big game in front of a national TV audience. Callaway caught two touchdown passes including a spectacular one-handed grab. Callaway says he was just doing his job
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Five puppies are now safe and sound after spending days at the bottom of a 65-foot dry well in Washington Parish. Director of the Humane Society of Louisiana Jeff Dorson says responders were forced to get creative in order to save the five pitbull mix puppies.
Dorson says they tied leashes together to form a type of webbing, enticed puppies with food into the webbing, and pulled them to safety.
In his 33 years in the field, Dorson says he’s never seen such an operation. Overall Dorson says the puppies are in great shape considering and crews kept them fed and watered throughout the rescue.
The puppies were transported to Mandeville Animal Hospital where they are being treated for parasites and minor skin issues.
Dorson says the rescue is reminiscent of when several children were tapped in a cave. He’s very relieved the story has a happy ending and grateful for all the local first responders who assisted their crew and provided support, like the Franklinton Fire Department and Washington Parish Sherriff’s Office.
All five puppies and their mother who stayed with responders during the three-day rescue once cleared will be transported to a shelter and put up for adoption.
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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…
Other studies have been cited showing Ivermectin, in large doses, reducing COVID in a petri dish but no similar, peer-reviewed studies have found that to be the case in humans yet.
Strain says Ivermectin can have really nasty side effects, especially if taken improperly.
Strain says for some Ivermectin can even be fatal. That’s because some people genetically don’t have the right protein to stop Ivermectin from crossing the blood-brain barrier.