The Louisiana Department of Health says 90-percent of all COVID cases in the state is the Omicron variant. LSU Health Shreveport Infectious Disease specialist Dr. John Vanchiere (van CHERRY) says their lab sequencing indicates a significant jump in northwest Louisiana…:
Cut 11 (12) “…week prior.”
LDH reported another 10-thousand new cases yesterday, eleven COVID deaths and hospitalizations are up to 1,287.

The oldest living World War Two veteran in the US has died. Lawrence Brooks passed away in New Orleans at the age of 112. Brooks was drafted in the U-S Army in 1940 and sent to Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines performing combat support roles with other black soldiers. Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana Reverend Morris Thompson says at that time there was a racist belief that blacks could not serve in a combat unit…
cut 16 (10) “…in the army”

One year ago today an angry mob of pro-President Trump supporters stormed the U-S Capitol in an effort to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Louisiana senior senator Bill Cassidy says January sixth was, unfortunately, an example of how rhetoric has consequences, much like it did when Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise was shot in 2017….
cut 5 (15) “…should not occur”
Cassidy and six other Senate Republicans voted in February to convict former President Trump of inciting the riot at the U-S Capitol.