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Gov. Edwards: Louisiana is in fourth surge — urges masks, testing
Louisiana has 1,008 people hospitalized with COVID, up from 240 just a few weeks ago. There are 82 people on ventilators, and that is up from 65 just a day ago. And, the number of tests that are positive is 8.9 percent. Edwards said he expects that number to be over 10 percent by next week.
“We have the tools to prevent this from happening,” he said, but he added, “Even though Louisiana has the fastest growing trajectory of any state in the country, we’re ordering only 10 percent of the vaccine doses available to us.”
He said that was due to the lack of demand.
“That has to change and it has to change now.”
Louisiana mom holds vaccine drive at funeral for son who died of COVID
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Louisiana mother held a vaccine drive at the funeral of her son who died of
COVID-19 after refusing to get vaccinated.
Brandon Antoine passed away from the virus aged 46 in Baton Rouge on June 9.
His mother, Betty Antoine, begged him to get the vaccine before he contracted the virus, though he refused.
Now she is hoping other families do not go through the same tragedy, and used her son's funeral as an opportunity to get others in her community vaccinated.
Delta variant raises fear and vaccination numbers | wwltv.com
JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Across the city, the demand to get a COVID vaccine has jumped. People said it's the fear of catching the Delta variant.
You may remember Wednesday, Ochsner doctors told us requests for COVID vaccines are increasing by 10 to 15 percent.
And now several other vaccine sites and drug stores are seeing that same higher demand.
People have a few reasons they are being persuaded to get the vaccine now.
When the Ochsner three-day vaccine clinic opened its doors Thursday morning, 20 people were waiting in line. Jacqueline Lumpkin said it was convenience and delta variant surge that persuaded her.
“I heard a lot of stuff in the media and the President, so I was like, ‘OK, it's time,’” said newly vaccinated Jacqueline Lumpkin.
A 24-year-old man who works in the mall said he waited until now because he wanted to see first if others got side effects.
“Because I feel like the medicine is better now than when it first come out,” said the just-vaccinated man who did not want to give his name.
A special-needs teen got his vaccine because his mom wanted him to be safer in school. He sang a Stevie Wonder song to calm his injection anxiety as the nurse gave him his vaccine.