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Coronavirus Advisory: The role of medical laboratory science in a COVID-19 world
Because COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, it can only be diagnosed through the collection of a nasal swab. We have all seen images of healthcare workers collecting nasal swabs, but have you ever wondered what type of healthcare professional is actually performing the tests on those swabs?
Coronavirus Advisory: Assistance available for Louisiana’s economic growth
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, known as the CARES Act, provides our five-state region (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico) $236 million for the creation of projects that spur economic growth and create jobs following this pandemic.
Coronavirus Advisory: What we’ve learned about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all
What researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center saw in a serendipitous opportunity to evaluate the inadvertent changes in health behaviors because of widespread global restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
LSU weighs adjusting fall schedule to avoid second outbreak
LSU might adjust its fall 2020 schedule to avoid a forecast surge in coronavirus cases, university leaders said this afternoon during a webinar hosted...
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• Officials with Baton Rouge City Court say due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19 all traffic violations that do not involve an accident...
Congress expected to vote for drastic changes to PPP
Small businesses could soon see a rollback of several universally loathed measures attached to the original Paycheck Protection Program, the $669 billion loan and...
Legislators make play to control $811M in federal aid earmarked for local governments
Louisiana lawmakers are trying to take control from Gov. John Bel Edwards of the $811 million in federal money earmarked for local governments in...
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• Even as coronavirus testing ramps up around the country, businesses and public-health authorities seeking to safely reopen are hitting a speed-bump: Standard testing...
Reopening challenges: Test backlog makes data hard to interpret
While Jefferson and Orleans parishes were initial leaders in the state with the number of diagnosed cases of COVID-19, Steven Procopio, policy director at...
Louisiana’s jobless rate more than doubled in first full month of restrictions
Louisiana’s unemployment rate more than doubled during the first full month of coronavirus pandemic restrictions on business but was about the same as the...
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• The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has released an interactive map of known COVID-19 test sites in the nine-parish Capital Region as part of...
Pickup isn’t only for restaurants: How local retail startups are adapting to COVID-19
Local retail startups are adapting to COVID-19 by utilizing curbside pickup, taking a page out of restaurants' playbooks. And it seems to be working.
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• By enabling states to offer more generous unemployment benefits, and by enacting a variety of loan programs for small businesses, the federal government...
Local mortgage brokers do record volume in March, April
While some businesses have been struggling to hang on during the coronavirus crisis, mortgage brokers are not among them. Over the past two months,...
Work after COVID-19: ‘Every job is a technology job’
The emergence of the novel coronavirus has reshaped work as employers and workers once knew it, casting more emphasis on what is being completed...
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• About 28,800 Louisiana residents filed for unemployment last week—more than 12 times as many as a year earlier, but the lowest number since...
BTR seeing slightly more passengers, but flights haven’t topped 50% capacity
The Baton Rouge Metro Airport is beginning to see an increase in air travel, but not enough for airlines to pack customers at near...
How do you enforce social distancing? Restaurant owners say it’s not easy
Nearly one week into the phased reopening that has allowed restaurants to resume limited table service and nonessential retailers to welcome customers back to...
Census snapshot: More than half of state’s households see income losses
As of May 12, about 1.9 million Louisiana residents—or 55.7% of adults statewide responding to a recent U.S. Census Bureau survey—were living in households...
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• More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that...
