The state’s legislative auditor debunks the claims of duplicate COVID-19 cases that have led some to believe the coronavirus outbreak data is being presented in a manner to be more alarming than it is. Suspicion of inflated COVID numbers was increased with a Facebook post from Red River Parish’s homeland security office claiming that state numbers were higher because of duplicates. Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera says the investigation shows the numbers reported by the Louisiana Department of Health are not reflecting double-counted cases.
The state reports 24 new COVID fatalities today. Among them is the state’s fourth death attributed to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19. Louisiana is seeing an increasing number of cases of MIS-C among young people. As of August 10, the number of confirmed MIS-C cases in Louisiana has risen to 44. To date, infants as young as 1 month and teens up to 19 years of age have received MIS-C diagnoses in Louisiana.
Over the weekend the father of East Baton Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Nick Tullier, the deputy who was severely injured in July of 2016 during a police ambush, made a surprise video announcement about his son. James Tullier had been living in Houston helping care for his son’s recovery and rehabilitation at an apartment adjacent to TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital.
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A 24-year-old Lincoln Parish man is dead after being shot at a party of three to four hundred people. Lincoln Parish Sheriff Sgt. Matthew Henderson says deputies were responding to break up the event when they heard a single gunshot and saw a man approaching them.
The victim was transported to Northern Louisiana Medical Center where he later died.