A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report suggests that one coronavirus test may not be enough to be sure that someone has not been infected after exposure. The report, published Monday, found that more than 70 percent of inmates at a Louisiana prison who were exposed to someone infected with coronavirus ultimately … Read more
Baton Rouge activist rips into school board member after catching her ‘online shopping’ during a debate on renaming Lee High School after the Confederate general she had defended for ‘freeing his slaves’ Gary Chambers, who was a candidate for the Louisiana state senate last year, called on Connie Bernard to resign at a school board … Read more
More than 70 percent of hospitalized coronavirus patients who died in one Louisiana health system were black, a disturbing new study found. Of the patients hospitalized for COVID-19, more than 76 percent were black. Only about a third of the community served by the Ochsner Health system is black. The new research, published in the … Read more
Rising sea levels could leave more than 5,800 square miles of Louisiana wetlands underwater within 50 years, according to a new study New research from Tulane University shows the Louisiana coastline is at risk Rising sea levels of between six and nine millimeters a year would wipe out the Louisiana marshlands and parts of New … Read more
Two ghost hunters in Louisiana have said they ran out of a home that has been compared to Amityville Horror after they were spooked by paranormal activity. Dawn Vallot Declout listed the 1930s property for free in March, and locals claimed that the owner’s great-grandmother Adele haunts the place. On a recent visit, Cindy Parr … Read more
Drug maker Amneal Pharmaceuticals is donating 400,00 tablets of the unproven malaria drug that President Donald Trump has dubbed a ‘gift from God’ to Louisiana to help fight the state’s coronavirus crisis, the state attorney general said Tuesday. The drug, hydroxychloroquine, was given emergency FDA approval Monday, and the Trump administration plans to distribute millions … Read more
A 17-year-old from New Orleans has died from coronavirus as the city remains on track to become the next outbreak epicenter in the United States with one of the highest case growth rates in the world. More than 2,300 people in Louisiana have tested positive for COVID-19 and 83 people have died in the two and … Read more
Twelve residents of a Louisiana nursing home have tested positive for coronavirus, the facility confirmed Tuesday. After the discovery of the first positive resident, Lambeth House, in uptown New Orleans, went into lockdown on Friday. Of the home’s 268 residents, 26 have been tested for the virus, 17 are in isolation and the results of … Read more