Steve Schmidt Explains Why Mike Johnson's Extreme Beliefs Make Him a Danger to America | The Warning

Oct 26, 2023 | Steve Schmidt reacts to the Republicans electing Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. Steve breaks down why Johnson's fanatical beliefs on gay marriage, LGBTQ+ rights, climate change, abortion, and perhaps most of all, being an election denier, make him a danger to millions of American citizens.

Alarmed Louisiana Residents Turn to Vaccines in ‘Darkest Days’ of Pandemic

North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond, La., has been slammed with Covid-19 patients: There were 93 on a recent day, breaking the record of 65 set in December. Credit...Emily Kask for The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Louisiana is leading the nation in an explosion of new cases. Hospitals are overflowing and admitting more young people than before. But the crisis is also driving some to get vaccinated.

HAMMOND, La. — Officials in Louisiana have been willing to try just about anything to jolt the state’s lagging Covid-19 vaccination rates, from a $1 million cash giveaway to a public service announcement featuring the recent 14-year-old national spelling bee champion.

But when Madeline LeBlanc relented and got her first vaccine dose this week, she was motivated by something entirely different: fear.

After seeing news reports about the Delta variant raging across the state, Ms. LeBlanc, 24, had come to see that without a vaccine, she risked not just her own life but those of others around her. “I don’t want to be the one inhibiting someone else’s health,” said Ms. LeBlanc, who lives in Baton Rouge.

Demand for the shots has nearly quadrupled in recent weeks in Louisiana, a promising glimmer that the deadly reality of the virus might be breaking through a logjam of misunderstanding and misinformation. » | Rick Rojas | Thursday, August 5, 2021

Louisiana: Floodwater Destroys Thousands of Homes

Catastrophic flooding in parts of Louisiana has caused thousands of residents to evacuate and left many without homes to return to. CNN's Jennifer Gray reports.

‪Three Police Officers Killed in Louisiana's Baton Rouge‬

Two suspects are at large and one is dead after gunmen opened fire on police headquarters in Baton Rouge on Sunday, killing three police officers and wounding three other officers. The injured have been taken to hospital but their condition is unknown. Al Jazeera spoke over the phone with local journalist Bill Profita.

‘Brain-eating’ Amoeba Found in US Drinking Water Supply for First Time

THE INDEPENDENT: Deadly parasite that led to death of four-year-old came from mains tap in residential area of St Bernard Parish, Louisiana

A parasite which causes a deadly “brain-eating” infection has been found in Louisiana’s mains water supply after the death of a four-year-old boy in his own back garden.

Residents in the parish of St Bernard, near New Orleans, have been issued with a warning along with a list of precautions that must be taken before they can drink water from the tap.

The southern state’s Department for Health and Hospitals issued a statement confirming that “the encephalitis death of a child that had visited St. Bernard Parish was connected to the rare amoeba, which testing confirmed was present at the home”.

The amoeba – Naegleria fowleri – enters the brain via contaminated water which is inhaled through the nose, leading to an infection which destroys brain tissue.

The US’s centre for disease control said the initial symptoms include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, and stiff neck. Later symptoms include confusion, lack of attention to people and surroundings, loss of balance, seizures, and hallucinations. After the start of symptoms, the disease progresses rapidly and usually causes death in “one to 12 days”. » | Adam Withnall | Monday, September 16, 2013