The incidence of COVID-19 in Louisiana is worse than it’s ever been and there’s nothing on the immediate horizon signaling things will change soon, the state’s top health officer said Tuesday.
Though Louisiana has doubled the number of places where people age 70 and over can receive COVID-19 immunizations, Lincoln Parish providers have very little, if any, of the vaccine.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Walgreens are entering into a new COVID-19 testing partnership to increase the number of sites providing testing by appointment, including here in Ruston.
Lincoln Parish nursing homes are awaiting word from Walgreens as to when residents will get to receive their first injections of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has extended the state’s modified Phase 2 coronavirus restrictions another 21 days as the third surge of the respiratory illness continues to march through Louisiana.
As the COVID-19 pandemic began its first surge through Lincoln Parish last spring, Northern Louisiana Medical Center turned its third floor into a 23-bed coronavirus unit.