The state reports 34 new COVID deaths bringing Louisiana’s total coronavirus fatalities to 512. One of the lives claimed was a newborn in East Baton Rouge Parish who died after being born severely premature due to her mother’s COVID symptoms. Pregnant women are considered a COVID-19 high-risk group, and EBR Coroner Beau Clark explains why…
Influenza cases should be going down at this time of the year but State Immunization Director Dr. Frank Welch says the state has not yet seen that dip as one in ten visits to a doctor is for flu-like symptoms.
Former Saints kicker Tom Dempsey, who once held the NFL record for the longest made field goal, has died of COVID-19. He was 73. NFL analyst Mike Detillier remembers the two appeared together at a public event in 2011 and fans stood in a long line to get Dempsey’s autograph
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Dempsey’s record stood for more than four decades. Matt Prater broke the record in 2013 with a 64-yard field goal in Denver.
Dr. Ray Authement, who served as the president of UL Lafayette for 34 years, has died. Current UL Lafayette President Joe Savoie says it was Autement’s own time in college that guided his handling of a student’s experience.
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Upon his retirement in 2008, he was the longest-serving public university president in the United States.