The state’s trucking industry says the shortage of big-rig drivers is a huge part of our supply chain problems. More from Kevin Gallagher.
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A Shreveport couple has been arrested for cruelty to a juvenile after their three-year-old child was found severely malnourished and weighing only 11 pounds. Ietadterneisha Marshall and Derrick George are being held on charges of second-degree cruelty at the Shreveport Jail and the child was taken to the hospital.
Louisiana’s Shot for 100 program has been extended and just in time once the CDC approves the vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds. LDH Assistant Secretary of Health Kim Hood says the program will now run through the end of the month.
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LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center, along with LSU Health New Orleans and Tulane Health Sciences will take part in a National Institutes of Health study on the impacts of long COVID. Pennington Lead Investigator John Kirwan says at first, they thought the symptoms were possibly psychosomatic or merely coincidence.
The study will take place over four years.