Governor John Bel Edwards says new data shows potentially good news in Louisiana’s fight against the spread of the coronavirus…
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Louisiana is reporting just under 15-hundred COVID-19 cases and 512 deaths. The state health department has released a racial breakdown of the fatalities and 70-percent of Louisianans killed so far have been African-American. Also, the leading underlying health condition is hypertension.

Attorney General Jeff Landry announces Louisiana has secured additional COVID-19 medications. Teva Pharmaceuticals is donating eight-thousand packs of azithromycin and 75-thousand tablets of hydroxychloroquine to Louisiana. This is in addition to the 400-thousand tablets of hydroxychloroquine donated last week…
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Some medical professionals say there has not been enough evidence to determine that these drugs actually work against COVID-19.

A lawsuit has been filed seeking for the release of hundreds of high-risk inmates at the Oakdale federal prison in Allen Parish. Five prisoners at the facility have died from COVID-19. ACLU of Louisiana executive director Alanah Odoms Hebert says Governor Edwards should take action too…
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A New Orleans drug gang leader was fatally shot Sunday after he was released from the Orleans Parish Jail due to the coronavirus threat.