Staff Report
Statistics released last week by the Louisiana Department of Health show a slight disparity on vaccinations based on race for Iberville Parish.
The statistics show that 50.8 percent of the
White residents in the parish have initiated the vaccine, while 53.49 percent have completed it. The White community comprises 49.3 percent of the parish population.
By comparison, 42.35 percent of the Black population have initiated it and 40.34 percent have completed it. The Black community comprises 50.7 percent of the population.
Percent positivity, meanwhile, has trickled upward to 5.0 percent, but it’s more than half of the number in West Baton Rouge (11.8), where totals have spiked in recent weeks. The percent positivity in Pointe Coupee is 1.70.
Staff Report
A longtime holiday tradition almost became “The Christmas That Wasn’t” for the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office, until circumstances made Sheriff Brett Stassi reconsider.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic left Stassi uncertain about whether to do the annual Christmas donations to needy families, but it did not take him long to reconsider.
“I was thinking of another plan, but we started getting calls from guidance counselors from the schools who were waiting for the paperwork,” he said. “The people from schools told us this tradition was needed more than ever.”
Stassi agreed, and the tradition continued.
Deputies brought 20 children on a Christmas shopping trip during what has been one of the toughest years for families, many of whom have been sick or out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic.