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.
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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.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday is toughening COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and contractors as he aims to boost vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant that is killing thousands each week and jeopardizing t…
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.
Louisiana was already battling its fourth and worst surge of the coronavirus last week as Hurricane Ida tore roofs off homes and hospitals, caused widespread power outages and devastated entire communities in some corners of the state. But with li…
COVID-19 booster shots may be coming for at least some Americans but already the Biden administration is being forced to scale back expectations — illustrating just how much important science still has to be worked out.
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.
State workers and students in Louisiana likely will soon have to show proof of immunization, or an exception to being vaccinated, now that the federal Food & Drug Administration fully approved Monday one of the COVID vaccines.
Baton Rouge General will open a monoclonal antibodies infusion center later this week for vulnerable people infected with COVID-19, expanding access to a treatment doctors say is effective at keeping people who are sick with the virus out of the h…
Gov. John Bel Edwards plans to require unvaccinated state employees to undergo regular COVID testing
Nearly 40,000 employees working for the state of Louisiana will soon have a choice: get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face regular testing and other restrictions.
With its nurses and respiratory therapists stretched thin under a crushing wave of COVID cases, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge has for months been at "capacity level red."
COLFAX — Mike Campbell wasn’t particularly interested in getting the vaccine.
With the fourth wave of coronavirus in Baton Rouge prompting last-minute shifts to virtual schooling, participating families are eligible to have a week’s worth of meal boxes delivered to their homes in lieu of what their children would have recei…
The whole family looked forward to the balmy summer day when Demarcus Dunn and Francine James would tie the knot.
St. Helena Parish public schools tested nearly 400 students for COVID-19 this week out of “an abundance of caution,” the superintendent said, after a few came down with the virus a couple of weeks into the fall semester.
Less than two weeks into the new school year, the East Baton Rouge Parish school system has instituted far-reaching changes aimed at curbing the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
After LSU gave all sororities and some fraternities a 48-hour deadline to get checked for COVID-19, thousands of Greek students overwhelmed the campus’ largest testing site and jammed up traffic on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.
Baton Rouge and its surrounding parishes have set a record for the number of people to die from COVID-19 in a single week, as the pace of deaths caused by the virus’s rapidly spreading delta variant accelerated throughout a largely unvaccinated Lo…
Following two weeks of record-shattering COVID hospitalizations, Louisiana saw a glimmer of hope in its battle against its fourth and worst surge of the deadly virus on Friday when the number of patients hospitalized dropped for the second day in a row.
After having respiratory complications, the woman was hospitalized and placed on a ventilator in Belize before being evacuated to Tulsa, Oklahoma where she died on August 14.
More coronavirus deaths were reported in Louisiana on Tuesday than on any other single day of the pandemic, the Louisiana Department of Health reported in a noon update.
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.
State workers and students in Louisiana likely will soon have to show proof of immunization, or an exception to being vaccinated, now that the federal Food & Drug Administration fully approved Monday one of the COVID vaccines.
Baton Rouge General will open a monoclonal antibodies infusion center later this week for vulnerable people infected with COVID-19, expanding access to a treatment doctors say is effective at keeping people who are sick with the virus out of the h…
Gov. John Bel Edwards plans to require unvaccinated state employees to undergo regular COVID testing
Nearly 40,000 employees working for the state of Louisiana will soon have a choice: get vaccinated against COVID-19 or face regular testing and other restrictions.
The Louisiana Department of Health reported 2,838 hospitalizations and 48 more confirmed deaths in its noon update Monday.
With its nurses and respiratory therapists stretched thin under a crushing wave of COVID cases, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge has for months been at "capacity level red."
The vaccine now carries the strongest endorsement from the Food and Drug Administration.
COLFAX — Mike Campbell wasn’t particularly interested in getting the vaccine.
With the fourth wave of coronavirus in Baton Rouge prompting last-minute shifts to virtual schooling, participating families are eligible to have a week’s worth of meal boxes delivered to their homes in lieu of what their children would have recei…