• The state health department today reported 2,924 new COVID-19 cases and 43 deaths.
• The coronavirus will kill more people in the U.S. every day for the next two to three months than died in the 9/11 attacks or Pearl Harbor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said Thursday, The Washington Post reports.
• An emerging $900 billion COVID-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers has all but collapsed after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators won’t support $160 billion in state and local funds as part of a potential trade-off in the deal.
• Officials in Ascension Parish have once again partnered with Ochsner Health System to offer free drive-thru coronavirus testing at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center. WBRZ-TV has more information.
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