An online survey of more than 10-thousand conducted by LSU and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls find most Americans comply with COVID precautions. Brooke Thorington has more.
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Shreveport police are investigating the apparent heat-related death of a one-year-old child who was found in a hot car at a mobile home park. The infant has been identified as Jospeh Everett who had been in the vehicle for several hours before being found just after three Thursday afternoon in the Forest Estates Mobile Home Park on the Bert Kouns Industrial Loop.
Economist Loren Scott is out with his annual economic outlook of where Louisiana’s economy is headed. He tells us his team expects the state to add 110-thousand jobs over the next two years. As for the addition of new jobs in the state, Scott says New Orleans should do well and Baton Rouge will be getting a big shot in the arm from a major project.
And Scott says there are upwards of eight billion dollars in industrial projects that have been announced that he believes will occur.
Ochsner is taking part in a vaccine trial that could lead to children ages 5-11 years old getting Pfizer COVID shots. Dr. William Lennarz, System Chair for Pediatrics for Ochsner Health, says as to what happens with the results for the vaccine trial at Ochsner, Lennarz says those will be considered along with results from other locations in the nation.
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And Dr. Lennarz believes it’s important for the 5-to-11 age group to receive the Covid vaccine saying they’re the most vulnerable group and critical to addressing the further spread of the virus.