Health experts warn that testing negative for COVID after having significant exposure to a COVID positive person is no guarantee you were not infected. Matt Doyle has more.
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Casino’s in Louisiana are no longer rolling the dice on employees as mass layoffs are coming. The L’Auberge casinos in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge are slicing more than 600 jobs between the two following the covid crisis. The Treasure Chest in Kenner also paired off 340 people. Boomtown in Harvey cut right at 200.

The AARP indicates the state is not doing a good enough job with the basic COVID-19 precautions needed to stem the loss of life and protect residents and staff in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. AARP State Director Denise Bottcher says congressional action is needed to make sure facilities are regularly testing and have the appropriate PPE.
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Nationally, 50,000 long term facility residents have died from the virus.

An estimated 13 percent of Louisiana motorists are uninsured, and a Bogalusa Representative says increasing the minimum wage would lower that number.
The business lobby has never been a fan of raising the minimum, but Representative Malinda White says if the working poor got a living wage they could afford insurance, lowering rates for everyone.
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