A Pfizer vaccine trial for children indicates promising results. Pfizer is expected to ask the FDA for emergency use authorization in the coming weeks. Tulane Epidemiologist Doctor Susan Hassig says the FDA asked Pfizer to extend the pediatric vaccine trial by two months so they would have more data to review, even though there is great anticipation to allow those ages five to eleven to be vaccinated.
A lot of trees fell victim to Hurricane Ida’s wrath as way too many property owners know about firsthand. But, Whitney Wallace, an LSU AgCenter Forestry and Wildlife agent, says the AgCenter, along with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, is continuing to assess the dollar damage with the biggest economic impact expected to be to the agricultural infrastructure and timber.
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There are growing concerns of permanent population loss in the southeastern coastal parishes after Hurricane Ida. Demographer Greg Rigamer says Ida was a devastating blow and it will be very difficult for Lafourche, Terrebonne, St. Charles, and St. John Parishes to recover. Since Katrina, the area has suffered devastating effects from Gustav, Isaac, and now Ida. Rigamer says right now he’d guess up to a hundred thousand could leave the coastal parishes permanently.
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Terrebonne Parish is continuing its recovery efforts more than three weeks after Hurricane Ida tore up the coastal area. Parish spokesman, Mart Black, says Ida left Terrebonne Parish completely in the dark, but today only 16-percent of utility customers don’t have electricity. He gives credit to the power companies…
He says the hope is to have power restored to everyone whose home or business can safely receive it by September 29th.