Governor Edwards sounds the alarm about the increasingly alarming situation in the New Orleans area, saying current projections show the region’s medical system running out of ventilators by late next week, and out of hospital beds by the week after that.
This information has led him to authorize turning the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans into a stand-up hospital, aiming to eventually house 1,120 beds at the location at peak capacity.
676 COVID patients in the state are in the hospital, 239 on ventilators and Congressman Ralph Abraham says for those at most risk, doctors should start considering experimental treatments…
Abraham singled out hydroxychloroquine as one potentially useful off label treatment. Small scale studies have shown mixed results for the treatment.
As the coronavirus forces the economy into a freefall, oil and gas prices continue to drop. Patrick DeHann, Head Petroleum Analyst with Gas Buddy says prices at the pump for the month of March continue to drop and oil prices are the lowest we’ve seen in eighteen years. DeHaan gives an update on Louisiana.
The statewide average is currently 1.85
Four people are dead, including a 2-year-old, following crash on Progress Road in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola says last night around 9:30, a driver and two passengers were in an Oldsmobile traveling at a high rate of speed when control of the vehicle was lost.
The crash claimed the lives of 56-year-old Patrick Dunn, 22-year-old Destiny Nelson, 28-year-old Jamarcus Brown and 2-year-old Jamarcus Brown Jr.