Coronavirus COVID-19

St. Landry Parish School Board (SLPSB) Superintendent Patrick Jenkins says masks and face coverings are back in January 2022.

We sometimes forget how the coronavirus pandemic has not just affected humans, but animals as well.

As expected, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has followed the actions of several other metropolitan areas in the U.S. by requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test (within 72 hours) to enter any indoor activity in the New Orleans metro with large crowds.

There's another group of people the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is especially concerned about, pregnant women and their unborn babies and women who are thinking about having a baby.

Many experts believe this one causes worse symptoms than the original delta virus and is even more contagious.

Dr. Henry Barham, a rhinologist at Baton Rouge General is looking for participants between the ages 18 and 65 for clinical trials.

Right now, in Region 4, only 3 hospital beds are available due to the overwhelming increase in COVID patients.

Scott Roe was interviewed by CBS News. He said he would go through it again before he'd take the vaccine.

New Orleans Mayor Cantrell's office warns that the reinstatement of coronavirus mask and other mitigation efforts is not out of the question for New Orleans as recent COVID-19 data is startling.

In the past two weeks, COVID-19 hospitalizations in one part of Louisiana have nearly quadrupled.