Ellison Travis, the acting US attorney for the middle district of Louisiana, said the owner of a Baton Rouge lab and a Floriday woman have been charged in an alleged scheme to pay and receive healthcare kickbacks.
We’re potentially weeks away before President Biden’s COVID action plan goes into effect, but a lot of businesses are still trying to figure out how this will work.
You can stop by the Southern University Law Center Atrium located at 2 Roosevelt Steptoe St. on Southern University’s campus this Friday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. to participate.
According to LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard, the university has started to unenroll students for not following the COVID-19 vaccination rules.
The Louisiana Department of Health has opened two new federally supported monoclonal antibody therapy (mAb) treatment sites and is on track to open three additional sites this week.
Baton Rouge health leaders encourage students and faculty members to come to a virtual discussion surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, August 26.
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services will continue issuing Summer P-EBT benefits as schools submit their student’s eligibility information.
The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has updated it’s COVID-19 protocols with the recent surge of cases across the state. Beginning September 1 the following policies will go into effect.
Fans attending events including football games and concert’s inside Southern University’s A.W. Mumford Stadium will be required to wear masks at all times, except when eating or drinking.
Efforts are underway to stop the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant in local schools. The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board voted to require staff to show their vaccine status and get tested weekly for the virus.
Baton Rouge General (BRG) will open a Specialty Infusion Center later this week to administer monoclonal antibodies to COVID-19 patients who fit the criteria. Located in the Center for Health on BRG’s Bluebonnet campus, the center’s 15 infusion bays will allow for up to 80 infusions per day. Staffing will be provided with help from the Louisiana Department of Health.
LSU will “fully review” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine before implementing a mandate, a university spokesperson says.
Gov. John Bel Edwards and State Health Officer Dr. Joseph Kanter applauded the U. S. Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the first such full approval of its kind.
Starting Monday, Aug. 23, Mayor Latoya Cantrell says the city will begin enforcing it’s new vaccine mandate, which requires business owners to ask for a vaccine card or a negative covid test from each of their customers.
In 2020 East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office reported over 200 accidental overdoses. As of August 16, 2021, the number of fatal overdoses is already up to 169, but there is hope to change that.
The Louisiana Department of Health has announced several COVID-19 testing sites operated by the Louisiana Army National Guard (LANG) will be set up across the state during the week of Aug. 23-29.
BESE Vice President and District 2 Rep. Kira Orange Jones issued a statement on Friday, August 20, regarding the board’s super majority decision to adjourn its meeting on Aug. 18 after many in attendance refused to wear masks.
Health care facilities have become the newest target in a wave of cyberattacks, according to a recent study. This comes as a record amount of COVID cases continue to put a strain on hospitals in Louisiana, and across the country.
Schools across Louisiana are taking one day at a time and several parishes across the Capital Region chose to opt-out of virtual learning this year to get their students back in class but not all parents are too thrilled about it.
LSU has advised several of its Greek chapters that their members must be tested for COVID-19 after university officials detected the virus in samples of wastewater from Greek houses on campus, a university spokesperson tells WAFB.
