Senator Greg Tarver (D) Shreveport
Shreveport Senator Greg Tarver is calling out LSU Baton Rouge amidst the sexual misconduct scandal and said they are attempting to skirt attention and place it on LSU Shreveport instead. Tarver said it is clear that LSU Baton Rouge has not even touched the surface of mishandlings.
“Not only with the football team but other areas, what they’re trying to do is shift everything to Shreveport and use Shreveport as a scapegoat, and that’s not right nor fair,” said Tarver.
Shreveport Medical School Chancellor Dr. G.E. Ghali was placed on leave after allegations of sexual misconduct. Tarver said but the chancellor at the New Orleans has received more complaints than Ghali but was not placed on leave.
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Earlier this month, UMass officials led by UMass Medical School Chancellor Dr. Michael Collins and system President Marty Meehan proposed the state should partner with schools to build a program recruiting nursing and medical students to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. This group, led by UMass students, could then go around the state training others and speed up the distribution and delivery of the roughly 10 million vaccine doses the state will need for its adult population.
UMass is now testing this effort in Worcester, and if it is successful, the state should consider implementing the plan widely as soon as possible. To date, America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been mismanaged and uneven, at best. Now with the solution of a vaccine at our doorstep, we continue to trip up in the execution phase, with a slow vaccine rollout. With hospitals in many states strained beyond capacity, more than 400,000 Americans dead, and a new variant of the virus spreading the disea
To start, it may all depend on how things go in Worcester.
UMass Medical School students – both nursing students and the School of Medicine students they’ve trained to give shots – began administering the first vaccines on Jan. 11 to the first few hundred police officers, firefighters and other first responders in Worcester and six adjacent towns.
Before too long, leaders of the effort will review what worked best and what didn’t in order to gauge how such an effort could be replicated elsewhere in the state.
The program may be tapping into a broad eagerness in the medical community to play a role in helping to bring an eventual end to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 400,000 Americans.
A UMass Memorial Health Care employee involved in a riot that briefly overtook the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday no longer works there, the Worcester health care system said.