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4-14-21

Louisiana’s health department has told the state’s vaccine providers to stop administering the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine immediately. Tuesday’s advisory came after federal officials announced they are investigating possible links between the one-shot vaccine and severe blood clots. More than 2.2 million vaccine doses have been administered in Louisiana. Gov. John Bel Edwards said about 85,000 were from Johnson & Johnson.

 

THE PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR FOR THE ACADIANA REGION, DOCTOR TINA STEFANSKI, SAYS THEY HAVE ENOUGH SUPPLY OF PFIZER AND MODERNA VACCINES TO COVER ALL UPCOMING APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULED CLINICS.  SHE SAYS THE STATE OFFERED TO EXPIDITE THE DELIVERY OF ADDITIONAL VACCINES BECAUSE OF THE HALT TO JOHNSON AND JOHNSON VACCINES, BUT SHE SAYS THAT IT WASN’T NECESSARY.  STEFANSKI SAYS MOST PATIENTS ARE KEEPING THEIR APPOINTMENTS THOUGH A FEW HAVE CANCELLED.  SHE SAYS THE COMMUNITY SHOULD DRAW CONFIDENCE FROM THIS SITUATION BECAUSE IT SHOWS THE SYSTEM OF MONITORING AND SAFETY CHECKS IS WORKING AS INTENDED.

 

LOUISIANA SAW TWENTY-TWO ADDITIONAL COVID-NINETEEN HOSPITALIZATIONS IN YESTERDAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS ROSE BY FIVE.  THE STATE HAD TEN MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-NINETEEN.  THERE ARE THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE NEW CASES IN LOUISIANA.

 

THERE WERE NO NEW DEATHS IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA WHILE ACADIANA ADDED ONE MORE.  THAT WAS IN SAINT MARY PARISH.  ACADIANA ADDED FIFTY-THREE NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES, INCLUDING TWENTY-SIX IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD TWENTY-TWO NEW CASES, MOST OF WHICH WERE IN CALCASIEU PARISH WITH SEVENTEEN.

 

LAST NIGHT THE MELVILLE TOWN COUNCIL CONSIDERED WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENT.  THE POLICE CHIEF IS ON MEDICAL LEAVE AND THE DEPARTMENT HAS ONE ACTIVE PART TIME OFFICER.  SHERIFF BOBBY GUIDROZ WAS AT THE MEETING AND HE TOLD THE COUNCIL THEY HAD TO CONSIDER RECALLING THE POLICE CHIEF OR, ONCE HIS TERM EXPIRES, ELIMINATING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CONTRACTING LAW ENFORCEMENT.  GUIDROZ SAYS HE WOULD CONSIDER A CONTRACT WITH MELVILLE WHICH WOULD PROVIDE TWO OFFICERS FOR THE TOWN BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH ADDITIONAL MONEY TO PAY FOR IT.

 

OFFICIALS WITH THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT WILL BE AT A SERIES OF PUBLIC MEETINGS IN LAFAYETTE THIS WEEK ABOUT THE I-FORTY-NINE CONNECTOR PROJECT.  INFORMATION OFFICER DEIDRA DRUILHET SAYS THE PROJECT WILL CONVERT ONE HUNDRED SIXTY MILES OF HIGHWAY NINETY TO INTERSTATE STANDARDS.  SHE SAYS PART OF THAT WOULD BE AN ELEVATED HIGHWAY THROUGH LAFAYETTE.  THE D-O-T-D IS HOPING TO GET DESIGN IDEAS FROM THE PUBLIC MEETINGS.

 

ONE OF THE TWO MEN, WHO STOLE A CAR AND FLED FROM POLICE BEFORE CRASHING THE VEHICLE IN JENNINGS, IS NOW FACING CHARGES FOR AN ARMED ROBBERY IN OPELOUSAS.  NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD MARKENTAE WILLIAMS OF MAMOU NOW FACES CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ARMED ROBBERY.  THE ROBBERY HAPPENED FEBRUARY TWENTY-THIRD WHEN THE VICTIM WAS SHOT IN THE BACK BUT SURVIVED.  A FIREARM AND AN UNDETERMINED AMOUNT OF CASH WERE TAKEN IN THE ROBBERY.

 

A RAPPER FROM BATON ROUGE IS BEING HELD IN THE ST. MARTIN PARISH JAIL ON A FEDERAL HOLD BY U-S MARSHALS.  TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD KENTRELL GAULDEN, ALSO KNOWN AS N-B-A YOUNGBOY, WAS INDICTED MARCH TENTH ON FIREARMS CHARGES RELATED TO THE FILMING OF A MUSIC VIDEO IN BATON ROUGE.  HE WAS ARRESTED IN LOS ANGELES ON MARCH TWENTY-THIRD ON THE FEDERAL FIREARM WARRANT.