Nursing homes in Louisiana are officially open to visitors under these loosened restrictions
Faimon Roberts
Louisiana health officials on Friday loosened restrictions on visitation in the state's nursing homes and adult residential facilities, opening the homes to indoor visits regardless of the resident or visitor's vaccine status.
The new rules, which follow federal guidance issued earlier in the week, will open up homes more than they have been in the last year as the pandemic menaced some of the state's most vulnerable citizens. To date, the virus has claimed more than 2,800 nursing home residents and infected nearly 16,000 others in Louisiana, according to numbers provided by the state.