There’s the potential for two hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico next week. State Climatologist Barry Keim says one of the storms is expected to enter the Gulf on Sunday after moving over the Yucatan Penisula. Keim says the official forecast track calls for this system to develop into a hurricane as it approaches the Louisiana-Texas coastline
Keim says the other system is Tropical Storm Laura has the potential of making landfall in southeast Louisiana on Wednesday as a hurricane.
An Ochsner anti-body survey of the Baton Rouge region uncovers some unsettling data about COVID-19. Ochsner Research Scientist Dr. Amy Feehan says they discovered 61 percent of those who tested positive for a contagious infection were not showing symptoms and likely didn’t know they were carrying the virus.
2,100 people in the region were tested for the survey.
The 2020 US Census is in its final months, but the Bayou State is in danger of being undercounted due to lack of response. Brooke Thorington explains.
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The AP reports that only 64 percent of those who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 since mid-May have been interviewed by contact tracers, and only 25 percent of those found positive responded to contact tracers within 24 hours of receiving their results. Of those 64 percent who are contact, 70 percent are claiming that they have no close contacts that they could have infected.