There’s been another big jump in coronavirus cases and deaths. Louisiana health officials reported an additional 510 cases of COVID-19 today bringing the state’s total number to 2,305. Eighteen more people have died since yesterday’s update. The total number of fatalities is 83 and that includes a 17-year-old from Orleans Parish. That’s the first minor from Louisiana who has died from COVID-19.

Louisiana Congressman Ralph Abraham, who is also a physician in Richland Parish, is encouraging doctors to use experimental treatments on patients who have severe symptoms. President Donald Trump has touted n anti-malarial drug called Hydroxychloroquine. The treatment does not have FDA backing, but Abraham says anecdotally…
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But the Kaiser Family Foundation says hydroxychloroquine should be a “drug of last resort” due to its side effects.

Saints Quarterback Drew Brees helped the region recover from Hurricane Katrina now he’s trying to help residents who have been impacted economically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s donating five-million dollars so that 10-thousand meals per day can be delivered throughout Louisiana. Second Harvest Food Bank President Natalie Jayroe says this will help with feeding those that have lost employment and seniors who are finding it hard to buy food, plus…
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Four people in Baton Rouge have died after a car traveling at a high rate of speed crashed into a house. A two-year-old in the vehicle is one of the victims. Two other people in the car died and a person inside the home was also killed. Baton Rouge Police Sergeant Don Coppola is not sure why the three were driving around…
cut 7 (09) “….get through this”