The president completed his course of treatment with the drug Paxlovid.
Louisiana is in the thick of its longest COVID surge and there isn't a plateau in sight. But this time around, with most of the population having some protection from vaccines or prior infection, the message from public-health officials is that pe…
The president has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug.
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The recent rise in new coronavirus cases is being felt in Louisiana's nursing homes, which have reported a sharp increase in COVID-related deaths in the last three weeks, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Health.
Lawyers for infamous nursing home magnate Bob Dean say they have reached a settlement with patients and family members who have sued over the bungled evacuation of more than 840 elderly and disabled residents to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida, cour…
The slow and gradually building sixth wave of the coronavirus in Louisiana appeared to make a sharp upward turn on Monday, as case counts soared and hospitalizations rose sharply.
When teachers and students return to school in Louisiana after the summer break, it will mostly be without masks, social distancing, quarantines or other restrictions imposed because of COVID-19.
Four people in Louisiana are confirmed to have contracted new subvariants of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, the first known cases of these subvariants in the United States.
The Fourth of July annually brings fireworks shows, family barbecues and thousands of Essence Festival tourists to New Orleans. But this year, health professionals are urging caution, as the state's sixth wave of COVID cases build steam.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has tested positive for COVID, his office said in a news release Friday.
Vaccinations are expected to begin next week for children under 5.
COVID-19 shots for U.S. infants, toddlers and preschoolers moved a step closer Wednesday.
Louisiana and the Baton Rouge area are in the midst of another surge of COVID cases, state health and local hospital officials said. And things are probably worse than the official numbers suggest because increasingly common at-home testing has le…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain th…
Louisiana is in another unusual summer surge of RSV, the virus that typically causes winter colds in children.
Wearing masks by students and staff will become optional starting Monday in East Baton Rouge public schools.
A team of researchers led by an LSU professor hopes to give the U.S. government a viable way to monitor the transmission and spread of contagious diseases, like COVID, by studying wastewater on international flights — the same technology they're a…
A federal judge has ruled that a medical school in north Louisiana is within its bounds to enforce “reasonable safety measures” during the coronavirus pandemic — which included suspending a student who would not wear a mask — though the school mus…
The Ascension Parish Health Unit and Albertson’s Pharmacies are offering free Pfizer vaccines Saturday at the parish Health Unit in Gonzales.
Louisiana officials said Thursday there’s reason to believe the state is nearing a peak in new COVID-19 cases fueled by the omicron variant but cautioned that even after the latest surge turns a corner, the risk of infection will remain exceptiona…
Ascension Parish government will distribute free, at-home COVID-19 tests next week in Donaldsonville and Gonzales.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online.
Louisiana is providing up to $25,000 each to homeowners impacted by COVID-19 who are behind on their mortgage payments and at risk of foreclosure.
Louisiana businesspeople and politicos weighed in on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions about the Biden administration’s requirement that employers vaccinate nearly 100 million workers and require regular COVID-19 tests to those who refuse.
A day after Louisiana notched a new pandemic record for COVID-19 infections, Gov. John Bel Edwards decided Thursday not to issue a statewide mask mandate, even as he warned that more children than ever are hospitalized with the virus and that the …
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job.
As New Orleans joined Wednesday several major cities nationwide by reestablishing mask mandates in reaction to a dramatic surge of COVID cases, the rest of the state has been slower to return to policies that mitigate the fast spreading and often …
The omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading faster among people around Baton Rouge than any of the virus’s past strains, data show.
A teacher union in Baton Rouge is trying to shut down public schools in town Wednesday after the local school district failed to agree to demands to shift immediately to virtual instruction districtwide and return to in-person learning “only after…
There is no plan for East Baton Rouge Parish to go back to requiring masks amid the latest surge of COVID-19 cases, officials said Tuesday.
A few more schools in Baton Rouge have announced they are shifting to virtual instruction thanks to new positive cases of COVID on their campus.
Moments after the Louisiana Department of Health last week tweeted about a new program promoting COVID-19 vaccinations for teenagers, the Twitter comment section filled with derogatory statements.
Despite welcome news that the omicron variant of the coronavirus is sending fewer infected people to the hospital during Louisiana’s fifth surge, the state’s healthcare system is facing familiar frustrations: drug shortages, overwhelmed emergency …
WASHINGTON — Fully vaccinated and mostly masked, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical Friday of the Biden administration's authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation's large employers. The court…
Louisiana notched a new single-day record for COVID-19 infections Thursday, reporting more than 14,000 additional cases, as the highly contagious omicron variant continues to rip across the state at an unprecedented clip with no sign yet of slowing down.
Louisiana set yet another single day record for COVID cases on Thursday. The data was released just hours before Gov. John Bel Edwards was set to address the state regarding the pandemic.
Students in St. Helena Parish will switch to taking classes remotely for a couple of days as schools around Baton Rouge react to the coronavirus's fast-spreading omicron variant.
Several schools in the greater Baton Rouge area are moving their pupils to remote learning amid the latest surge in COVID cases.
The Baton Rouge Office of Motor Vehicles is shutting down temporarily because of COVID precautions, according to a news release.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will extend for two weeks the nationwide mask requirement for public transit as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases, according to a person familiar with the matter.
NEW YORK — 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, and new data and research are offering more insights into how it got that bad.
A federal appeals court has upheld President Joe Biden's requirement that all federal employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. In a 2-1 ruling Thursday, a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a lower court and ordered…
As soon as they learn that someone on campus has either tested positive or is showing symptoms of COVID-19, schools in Louisiana are supposed to log details of that case into a statewide health database.
The unemployment rate shrunk to the lowest level since the pandemic started two years ago.
Federal health officials authorized another booster shot for people over 50 or with certain health conditions this week, allowing for an additional shot of the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine if at least four months have passed since their last dose.
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another COVID-19 booster for people age 50 and older, a step to offer extra protection for the most vulnerable in case the coronavirus rebounds.
Robert E. Stanton's three adult children claim that a Slidell hospital was grossly negligent in their father's COVID-related death in April 2020, failing to give him an I.V. or put him on a ventilator.
After two years of drastic measures meant to contain the spread of coronavirus through five separate surges, Louisiana seems to have passed the ultimate coronavirus test: Mardi Gras 2022, where thousands gathered from all over, parading and partyi…
Catholic schools in the Baton Rouge area now have permission from the diocese to drop, if they choose to, some or all remaining COVID restrictions, including rules on campus visitors, physical distancing and quarantines.
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers, the company announced Wednesday -- and if regulators agree it could mean a chance to finally start vaccinating the littlest kids by summer.
Two years after the first, fearful days of the COVID pandemic, the Rev. Tony Spell asked the Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out criminal charges over his defiance of Gov. John Bel Edwards' early emergency restrictions.