Even though Louisiana is approaching 15-thousand coronavirus cases and has surpassed 500 deaths, Governor John Bel Edwards believes Louisiana may have begun to flatten the curve in its battle against the spread of COVID-19. Edwards says the state is no longer on track to run out of ventilators or hospital beds in the New Orleans region this week…
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LSU Health Shreveport is testing the impact of using inhaled nitric oxide on COVID-19 patients with severely damaged lungs. Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery & Medicine Dr. Keith Scott says treatment with the gas could potentially kill coronavirus in the lungs and improve oxygen delivery to injured tissue.
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The study is a collaboration with two other institutions in the US and sites in Europe.

Following the deaths of five prisoners, the ACLU is suing Oakdale Federal Prison in Allen Parish for the release of inmates that are most at-risk for COVID-19. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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