Baton Rouge businesses working together to stay afloat amid pandemic
Baton Rouge businesses work together to stay afloat amid pandemic By Breanne Bizette | January 14, 2021 at 4:00 PM CST - Updated January 14 at 7:19 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Restaurants and bars are doing everything they can to keep their doors open and customers coming. At the mayor’s press conference, Adam Knapp, the president of BRAC says, “The livelihood of families and individuals have gone under because of difficulties in doing businesses.” It’s a situation that’s all too real for business owners and employees who depend on paychecks to keep going.
Baton Rouge hospitals work with small business in hopes of getting more people to donate blood during the pandemic
Baton Rouge hospitals work with small business in hopes of getting more people to donate blood durin By Breanne Bizette | January 9, 2021 at 5:26 PM CST - Updated January 9 at 7:22 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - More than 2,000 Louisianans are in the hospital with COVID-19, and the disease is killing nearly 40 people every day, but the phones at the blood donation banks have stopped ringing.
Baton Rouge General says it took half as much blood in 2020 as the year before, and more people need donations now than ever. So, the hospital is partnering with city leaders like Mid City Redevelopment and Merchants, along with Circa 1857 to get more folks to roll up their sleeves.
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BATON ROUGE - Despite a consistent and growing need for blood, fewer people are donating amid the ongoing pandemic out of fear of contracting COVID-19. The reason we re out here today with two buses is because our units have dropped. They ve declined a lot since COVID because so many people have scares, Life Share blood donor technician TK Carter said.
Those fears of contracting the virus are keeping donors away, however, some donors believe that the need for their blood is worth the risk.