Governor John Bel Edwards says they are starting to see signs that mitigation measures are working. Edwards says based on the latest hospital admission and death rates Louisiana may have started to flatten the curve. But the governor says now is not the time to get complacent…
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Meanwhile, checkpoints have been set up in Texas as State Troopers are screening drivers and asking Louisiana residents entering the Lone Star state to self-quarantine for 14 days after arriving. Edwards doesn’t blame Governor Greg Abbott for taking this measure…
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Attorney General Jeff Landry announces Louisiana is receiving 8,000 packs of azithromycin, and 75,000 hydroxychloroquine tablets, a treatment that some speculate could help treat COVID-19. The treatment doesn’t have FDA backing yet, but Landry says many doctors are prescribing these drugs to COVID patients.
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LSU Health Shreveport is participating in a clinical trial to see if nitric oxide can help the lungs of a COVID-19 patient. Professor of Pediatrics, surgery, and medicine, Doctor Keith Scott…
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Scott says nitric oxide is already FDA-approved for therapy with other types of respiratory failure and most hospitals already have the treatment readily available.