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Aubri Juhasz/WWNOTwo virus-related child deaths have happened in less than a week in Louisiana. Low vaccination rates among adults can leave kids under 11 that can't get the shot more susceptible to the disease. -
Center For Reproductive Rights/Louisiana’s abortion clinics are struggling to keep up with an influx of patients across the state border, after Texas enacted a six-week abortion ban. Louisiana lawmakers could consider passing a similar law.
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As a field hospital closes up shop in Mississippi this weekend, the state, along with Louisiana and Alabama, still has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country as the pandemic looks to be far from over. -
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is looking into more than three dozen complaints or reports of possible environmental damage from utilities and chemical plants across the state that were in the path of Hurricane Ida. Officials at the agency, however, said none of what has been reported so far requires immediate action.
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Several nursing homes across Louisiana are losing their licenses and senior living facilities in New Orleans are being shuttered because of deaths and unsafe or substandard living conditions during and after Hurricane Ida.
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Reporter Rosemary Westwood spoke with the director of the New Orleans Health Department, Dr. Jennifer Avengo, about the evacuations of eight seniors apartments in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
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After Hurricane Ida, the New Orleans Health Department conducted wellness checks at several senior apartment complexes and found eight facilities to be unfit for ongoing occupancy. Strike teams also found five people dead in some of these homes.
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Across a coastline battered and torn by Hurricane Ida, a new threat is emerging: the risks that come with trying to survive the recovery. Most of the region was under a heat advisory Wednesday with little indication temperatures would dip meaningfully in the coming days.
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Heat index values are expected to reach up to 105 on Tuesday and up to 106 on Wednesday.
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Those hospitals include St. Charles Parish Hospital, Our Lady of the Sea, St. Anne Hospital in Raceland and Chabert Medical Center in Houma, Terrebonne General Health System and Chabert Hospital, all healthcare facilities located near the coast in Louisiana, are moving their patients.
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COVID cases have been reported at all but a handful of Louisiana school districts
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Louisiana's Gov. John Bel Edwards said the child who died from COVID was under the age of 1.
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The New Orleans schools said the temporary switch to online learning was due to staffing issues.
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Ochsner Health will soon require all staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19, officials announced on Tuesday, as Louisiana recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic.
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LSU football fans, students and staff must provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to attend games and campus.
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LSU and other Louisiana colleges have started taking steps to implement a COVID vaccine mandate.
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College students from Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi share their thoughts as a new school year in the pandemic begins.
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For the second day in a row, COVID hospitalizations decrease slightly.
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As New Orleans Public Schools moves to require the COVID-19 vaccine for its central office staff, many of its charter operators are following suit.
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New Orleans Public Schools reported a record number of COVID cases and quarantines.
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New Orleans renters still wait for assistance amid an extended eviction moratorium.
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People undergoing cancer treatment or recovering from an organ transplant are among those likely to be eligible for an additional shot of a COVID-19 vaccine in Louisiana.
