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LSU Health Shreveport is offering COVID-19 vaccinations in Caddo, Bossier and Natchitoches parishes throughout the week in addition to vaccine opportunities for students and staff at schools in those parishes.
All three parishes are below the state percentage of full vaccinations. Natchitoches Parish is 24% fully vaccinated. Bossier Parish is slightly better at 26%.. Caddo Parish is at 28% fully vaccination. As a state, Louisiana is 30% fully vaccinated. Go get vaccinated, LSUHS Vice Chancellor for Resarch Dr. Chris Kevil said. The one thing that we do know is we can stay ahead of the virus by getting vaccinated. We certainly don t want to give the virus any more advantage or opportunity to get ahead of us.
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COVID-19 cases are dropping across northwest Louisiana with only one parish showing an increase in the last 14 days for a time period ending Sunday.
Caddo Parish is the only parish in Region 7 with a 14-day change in COVID-19 cases showing an increase. The increase, though, is small at only 4%.
Caddo Parish has 26,022 cases and 742 COVID-19 deaths through Sunday. The parish has 26% of its population fully vaccinated and 65% of those over 65 vaccinated. The state has 28.7% of its residents fully vaccinated.
Every other parish in Region 7, and Lincoln Parish outside of Region 7, showed decreases in COVID-19 cases as their 14-day changes.
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LSU Health Sheveport s Center for Emerging Viral Threats will continue administering COVID-19 vaccines this week across Shreveport and Bossier City at multiple sites in each city.
The CEVT also has scheduled vaccine opportunities for students and staff of participating Caddo and Bossier high schools.
All Louisiana residents ages 16 and older are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Eligible residents must contact a participating provider to make an appointment. Patients who arrive without an appointment will not be vaccinated.
Patients receiving Moderna or Pfizer vaccines will receive their second dose of the COVID vaccine at the same location they received their first dose. Second-dose appointments should be made during the administration of the first dose. If patients missed their second dose vaccination appointment they should immediately contact the provider of their first dose to schedule a new appointment.
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SHREVEPORT â A team of scientists and clinicians at LSU Health Shreveport, collaborating across the Centers for Brain Health and Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences, had their groundbreaking findings on a new blood biomarker for Alzheimerâs disease and related dementia published in the prestigious âAlzheimerâs & Dementia, The Journal of the Alzheimerâs Associationâ. LSUHS faculty Drs. Elizabeth Disbrow, Chris Kevil, Steve Alexander, and Karen Stokes were joined by colleagues from the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center and the Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
There is growing appreciation for the important role cerebrovascular disease plays in the development of Alzheimerâs disease and related dementias (ADRD). The newly identified plasma biomarker for ADRD, hydrogen sulfide, is already a known biomarker for cardiovascular disease. The team use