Governor John Bel Edwards will be in Monroe this afternoon to survey the damage from Sunday’s severe weather outbreak that has destroyed over 200 homes in the Monroe area. There’s also storm damage in DeSoto, Webster and Bossier parishes and power is out for thousands. But no fatalities have been reported.

North Louisiana state representative Danny McCormick believes businesses that are closed now, should re-open when the governor’s stay at home order expires on April 30th. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor Doctor G-E Ghali encourages Louisiana residents who have recovered from the coronavirus to donate their blood. Ghali says it will serve two purposes…
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Ghali says they are seeing some initial encouraging results by pumping plasma from those who have recovered from COVID-19 into those who are critically ill from the virus.

There are many who would like to see federal and state government re-open the economy in May. Senator Bill Cassidy says a rollout that would allow those under the age of 30 without co-morbidities back into the workplace is possible since they rarely have severe symptoms…
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Cassidy says expansive immunity testing could be the real game-changer.