Louisiana Department of Health has released the first round of bonus payments to over 15 thousand direct support workers statewide who served waiver participants during the pandemic. LDH Assistant Secretary Julie Foster Hagen points out workers must be currently employed and meet certain guidelines to qualify….
The payments are funded through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which included one trillion dollars in federal funding to support working families during the pandemic.
Did you know that a tick bite could cause you to be allergic to red meat? Dr. James Diaz with LSU Health New Orleans says when a Lone Star tick bites a human it can transmit chemicals from animals they feed on and one of those chemicals is Alpha-gal.
He says in the US it’s spread by a Lone Star tick, which has a white spot on its back, that feeds predominately on White Tail Deer.
Governor John Bel Edwards calls for the state’s Board of Pardons to hear the clemency applications from 56 death row inmates seeking to have their sentences commuted. Edwards’s announcement comes after the Pardon Board returned the applications citing they would violate their own rules to hear them within a year of their final approval. Earlier this year inmates on death row flooded the Pardon Board with requests. Prosecutors statewide have come out against clearing the state’s death row. Only two clemency requests have been granted since the death penalty was instated in the 1970s.