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 LSU football team will have to wait one more day before starting voluntary workouts. Senior associate athletic trainer Shelly Mullenix says they are not testing players daily for coronavirus, but they are screening for the disease. She says there are temperature checks when they enter the football operations building, plus coaches and players will answer a CDC questionnaire about their health
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The 2020 dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is projected to be four times larger this year than what a task force established in 2001. LSU Marine Science Professor Nancy Rabalais estimates this year’s 77-hundred square mile dead zone is roughly the size of New Hampshire.Rabalais says despite recognizing the dead zone issue, the federal government has not been able to tackle the problem.