The Louisiana Department of Health is reminding the public to catch up on the routine vaccinations that may have gone by the wayside due to the shelter in place order and closure of many medical offices. State immunization director Dr. Frank Welch says skipping vaccines can have disastrous consequences in the future.
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State and federal data show a sharp drop in vaccine orders from January through April.
As protestors nationwide demand changes in policing policy, Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome says the city’s police union has been an obstruction to reform within the department. Broome says they need greater flexibility to identify and remove bad cops from the department, and the union makes that difficult to do.
The 2020 dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is projected to be four times larger this year than the Hypoxia Action Plan goal established 19 years ago called for. LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalias says this year’s 7,769 square mile dead zone is roughly the size of New Hampshire.
The dead zone stretches along the bottom of the continental shelf along Texas and Louisiana.
The state reports 234 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the state’s total tally to 43,050. In the weekly update, nearly 34,000 of those cases are presumed to have recovered. Total fatalities: 2,831, up 6. Hospitalizations: 582, up 7. Ventilator usage: 71, down 3.