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The Louisiana-based hospital is releasing the latest information about COVID-19 vaccinations and hospitalizations.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON WGNOAs demand for COVID-19 vaccines booms with new eligibility for people over 70 in Louisiana, Ochsner Lafayette General is looking to meet that demand with a vaccine clinic starting Saturday at Lafayette's Heymann Center for Performing Arts.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Daily AdvertiserMedical workers at Ochsner Baton Rouge got their second coronavirus vaccine Tuesday. It’s been three weeks since they got the first one. Ochsner was one of the first stops in the nation for the new vaccine.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON WAFBOchsner Baton Rouge is building out a new $6.8 million pediatric clinic that will occupy nearly a full floor of the Ochsner Medical Complex The Grove over the next six months.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The AdvocateOchsner Health System on Monday began giving second doses of the Pfizer vaccine to healthcare workers. The second shot is given three weeks after the first injection.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Fox 8Cuteness overload! These beautiful babies were born on Christmas Day.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON BR ProudThe program is offered at 27 Ochsner Health locations, including two locations in Baton Rouge. It provides medical and social support resources to smokers looking to kick the habit for good.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Advocate"This is huge,” said Dr. Katherine Baumgarten. “It really is a big moment in time. We’ve been waiting a long time for the vaccine to be here. We’ve seen a lot of people that have been sick. People that have died. People that have been in our hospital. Our colleagues.”
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON U.S. News and World ReportBut this vaccine is monumentally different. Developed in record time, it is expected, eventually, to help end a pandemic that has crippled much of life in the United States — and globally — for the better part of a year.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Washington PostIt’s a day that we have been planning for, preparing for and praying for about 9 months now, and of course, this is the beginning of the end (of the pandemic).
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