The shots could begin in early November if regulators give the go-ahead.
Louisiana's Black residents have gotten COVID vaccinations at higher rates than the state's White residents, closing what was a significant gap when shots were first made available and offering a sign of hope to public health officials that outrea…
Authorization for younger children is expected in a matter of weeks.
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More COVID-19 booster shots may be on the way -- but when it's your turn, you'll get an extra dose of the original vaccine, not one updated to better match the extra-contagious delta variant.
He was the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
They should be offered at least two months after immunization, advisers said.
The panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously to recommend a booster shot for seniors, adults with other health problems, jobs or living situations that put them at increased risk for COVID-19.
A new COVID variant named B.1.630, first detected in the U.S. in March, has been sequenced by LSU in Shreveport. It is the first time the variant has been detected in the state of Louisiana.
Last month, a group of 24 neighbors boarded the American Queen in New Orleans. The six-deck Mississippi River steamboat would carry the group, most of them members of an adult-living community in Delaware, all the way to Memphis with around 200 ot…
The panel will also look into the safety and effectiveness of mixing-and-matching different brands of vaccine.
WASHINGTON — Drugmaker Merck asked U.S. regulators Monday to authorize its pill against COVID-19 in what would add an entirely new and easy-to-use weapon to the world's arsenal against the pandemic.
FILE - A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, in this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, file photo. Pfizer asked the U.S. government Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, to allow use of its COVID-19 vaccine …
Louisiana's problem of wasted COVID-19 vaccine shots continues to balloon, with about 224,000 doses thrown out across the state as health providers can't find enough residents willing to roll up their sleeves.
In August, Gov. John Bel Edwards told state workers that once a coronavirus vaccine received full approval, they would likely face a choice: get vaccinated or undergo regular testing.
Pfizer says the younger kids should get a third of the dose now given to everyone else.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, a doctor with decades of experience treating patients, said Louisiana residents who want to avoid dying from COVID-19 should take the vaccine — not the dewormer ivermectin.
LSU football’s game against McNeese State marked several firsts: the first home game of the season, the first game without crowd-size restrictions since the pandemic began and the first with an athletic department attempt to enforce vaccine or tes…
Pierre Cobb walked through one of two empty, air-conditioned chapels at Baton Rouge’s Winnfield Funeral Home while describing the logistics of hosting a drive-by funeral in the age of COVID-19.
A week after an ambulance rushed Laura James' husband to the hospital with dangerously low oxygen levels, she followed.
LSU will set up a dozen sites outside Tiger Stadium on Saturday to check its football fans' vaccination status in an effort to speed entry into the arena for its game against McNeese State.
With Hurricane Ida ripping across Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards said first responders won't be able to answer search and rescue calls until daylight Monday morning at the earliest.
Like the dog that finally caught the car, Louisiana officials are faced with the “now what?” question.
As Hurricane Ida strengthened Saturday, hospitals closest to the Louisiana coastline evacuated some of their most critical patients and prepared to lose power while caring for higher-than-usual numbers of patients amid the surging coronavirus pandemic.
More schoolchildren in Louisiana are coming down with coronavirus than ever before, but local K-12 leaders say they are still managing to quarantine fewer students than before.
If you were scheduled to get your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Louisiana this weekend, that's unlikely to happen — but that's OK.
COVID deaths in Livingston Parish smashed daily and weekly records as the fast-spreading delta variant fuels outbreaks that have soared since July.
With a rapidly intensifying Hurricane Ida barreling toward Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Friday that the “next 24 hours are very, very important,” urging the public to use that time to collect at least three days’ worth of food, water and …
Baton Rouge hospitals already overwhelmed by COVID patients are bracing for twin disasters with a major hurricane about to sweep through the region this weekend.
Gov. John Bel Edwards reinforced the statewide indoor mask mandate during a press conference about Hurricane Ida and extended Louisiana's public health emergency declaration.
On the 10th day of the new school year, 2,000 of the nearly 41,000 students enrolled in Baton Rouge public schools were no-shows.
Baker High School students will learn online because of an outbreak in COVID cases and won't return until Sept. 7, officials said Wednesday.
A Baker High School football player died Wednesday after falling sick from COVID-19, city officials have confirmed.
Schools in the Baton Rouge area reported hundreds of new cases of COVID among students and dozens more among staff last week, according to new data the Louisiana Department of Health released Wednesday.
One of COVID's latest Louisiana victims wasn't even one year old.
For one week only, Krispy Kreme will give away two free donuts a day to anyone who who shows their COVID-19 vaccination card.
Southern University will require faculty, staff and students to get a COVID vaccine or follow a required testing program, the school said Tuesday night.
Deaths from COVID-19 have soared in Livingston and Tangipahoa Parishes since the new, extremely virulent delta variant started Louisiana's worst-ever outbreak in early July.
LSU students will have until Oct. 15 to show proof of vaccination or present their declarations for formally opting out. University of New Orleans and University of Louisiana at Lafayette students registering in October will have to present their …
A hand-written message from a COVID patient in the intensive care unit at Baton Rouge General is gaining attention.
Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11 and that it will seek U.S. authorization for this age group soon -- a key step toward beginning vaccinations for youngsters.
An influential federal advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans, dealing a heavy blow to the Biden administration’s effort to shore up people’s protection amid the highly…
On Friday, the Louisiana Department of health announced the sixth pediatric death that's occurred during the fourth wave of the Delta variant of COVID-19. This brings Louisiana's pediatric death toll of COVID-19 to 15 overall.
The lone virtual option offered this year by the East Baton Rouge Parish school system has seen dramatically higher enrollment in the past month as COVID cases surged anew.
Livingston Parish reported Thursday that a resident died of COVID-19.
Many of the state’s biggest hospitals are back to full operations after Hurricane Ida, but surgeries and appointments remain bottlenecked, smaller hospitals in coastal areas are still partially shuttered and many employees are still living out of …
With widespread suffering after Hurricane Ida, Gov. John Bel Edwards faces renewed pressure to retroactively reinstate five weeks worth of pandemic jobless benefits, a move that could send $1,500 checks to more than 150,000 Louisiana residents.
He spent 16 years behind bars, including 15 on death row.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, a doctor with decades of experience treating patients, said Louisiana residents who want to avoid dying from COVID-19 should take the vaccine — not the dewormer ivermectin.
LSU football’s game against McNeese State marked several firsts: the first home game of the season, the first game without crowd-size restrictions since the pandemic began and the first with an athletic department attempt to enforce vaccine or tes…
Pierre Cobb walked through one of two empty, air-conditioned chapels at Baton Rouge’s Winnfield Funeral Home while describing the logistics of hosting a drive-by funeral in the age of COVID-19.
A week after an ambulance rushed Laura James' husband to the hospital with dangerously low oxygen levels, she followed.