Governor John Bel Edwards says it is frustrating to hear that some people are not taking the vaccine because it is still under emergency use authorization. Matt Doyle has more.
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Attorney General Jeff Landry believes the state should withhold state funding to the Saints because of the team’s ticket policy. The NFL franchise is not offering ticket holders refunds or the ability to opt-out if they refuse to get vaccinated or get a negative COVID test before attending games in the Dome.

President Biden says nursing homes risk losing federal money if they do not mandate the COVID vaccine for their employees. State AARP Director Denise Bottcher says this is good news for those who have loved ones in Louisiana nursing homes…
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The Louisiana Nursing Home Association says once C-M-S releases the guidance, facilities will comply, in order to care for residents who have Medicare and Medicaid.

Health care officials are encouraging the public not to take Ivermectin to either treat or prevent COVID. Some COVID patients have turned to Ivermectin, which is used to treat parasitic worms in people. But LSU Health New Orleans Chief of Community Medicine Doctor Ben Springgate says Ivermectin is not designed to treat COVID…
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The Biden Administration says they will pull federal funding among nursing homes that do not have staff fully vaccinated for COVID. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The state health department reports that over two thousand children reported to their school between August ninth and Sunday that they contracted the coronavirus. The previous high was 17-hundred in the first week of January. The data also indicates 32-percent of 12 to 17 year-olds have received at least one shot.

COVID has caused yet another event to be canceled in the Sportsman’s Paradise. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is canceling National Hunting and Fishing Day events that were scheduled across the state for September 25th. LDWF spokesperson Ed Pratt says it was a tough decision to make.
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And the state department of corrections has announced the prison rodeo at Angola in West Feliciana Parish has been canceled for a second consecutive year.

There’s less than a month to go before LSU football’s home opener. Governor Edwards’s mask mandate is only for indoor places, but he recommends wearing a mask at Tiger Stadium…
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Masks will be required to be worn in the Rose Bowl when LSU faces UCLA for the season opener.

With COVID hospitalizations surpassing three-thousand this week, Governor Edwards says there are now ten times as many people in the hospital with COVID than there were at the start of July. L-D-H says 91-percent are unvaccinated. Edwards says there are some waiting for full authorization from the FDA to take a vaccine. But he warns if you get hospitalized with COVID you’ll be treated by therapeutics under emergency use authorization…
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President Biden says nursing homes could lose federal funding if they do not make it mandatory for staff to be vaccinated against COVID. Louisiana AARP director Denise Bottcher applauds the decision…
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Healthcare experts say the drug Ivermectin should not be used to treat COVID because it’s ineffective against the disease. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education was set to discuss masks in schools yesterday, but the meeting ended early when a group of anti-maskers refused to wear a mask inside a state building…
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This means the governor’s indoor mask mandate is in effect for schools.

The Biden Administration says they will pull federal funding from nursing homes that do not have fully immunized staff. AARP State Executive Director Denise Bottcher applauds the president’s decision to protect residents and other staff members from COVID exposures from unvaccinated employees.
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According to AARP’s most recent dashboard, since July 28th the state has recorded 30 more deaths from COVID among nursing home residents. There were only three nursing home deaths from June 2nd to July 21st.

Health officials are alerting the public that Ivermectin should not be used to treat COVID. LSU Health New Orleans Chief of Community Medicine Doctor Ben Springgate says Ivermectin is effective when treating parasitic worms, not COVID. He says Ivermectin also has some nasty side effects…
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Governor Edwards says it is frustrating to hear that some people are not taking the vaccine because it is still under emergency use authorization. Matt Doyle has more.
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The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education adjourned its meeting before discussing whether local school boards should have the authority over the governor to enact masking policies inside schools. That’s because the room was filled with parents who are angry their children have to wear masks inside the classroom and they would not wear masks inside the state building where the meeting was held. BESE member Ronnie Morris asked the crowd to put on a mask so the meeting could continue…
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That request provoked outrage from the audience and on a vote of eight to two, the meeting was adjourned. On his monthly Ask the Governor’s show, Governor Edwards defended the need for masks inside schools…
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is alerting the public that a social media post claiming you can not obtain a hunting license unless you are vaccinated is not true. L-D-W-F spokesperson Ed Pratt says they want to nip the misinformation in the bud and remind the public that your vaccination status is not linked to the purchase or renewal of your hunting license.
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Members of Louisiana’s Congressional delegation are criticizing the Biden Administration for how the U-S withdrew troops from Afghanistan, which has left many looking for ways out of that country now that the Taliban is back in the country. John Kennedy says the President did not have a well-thought-out plan…
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The President has blamed the chaos on the failure of thhe Afghans to fight.

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is meeting and a spirited debate over face coverings in classrooms is expected. Governor John Bel Edwards believes his indoor mask mandate covers schools. But 63 House Republicans penned a letter to BESE asking them to allow school boards to make the decision locally. Alexandria Representative Lance Harris…
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But Edwards says masks are necessary to keep kids safe from the coronavirus and schools open…
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Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a legal opinion earlier this month that BESE, not the governor, has the final say on mask policies for schools. Several anti-mask parents are at the meeting waiting to speak.

An Acadia Parish man is in custody after driving more than 200 miles to have sex with who he believed was a 13-year-old girl…
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Louisiana Healthcare Connections has awarded 25-thousand dollars to Baton Rouge nurse Carla Brown who has vaccinated over two thousand people after losing her husband to COVID-19. Governor Edwards says the state health department has started an initiative in honor of Brown…
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