Vaccine

To boost the speed of administering COVID-19 vaccines to the community, the Louisiana Department of Health is encouraging retired medical providers to help put shots in arms.

The initial list of sites for the first round of COVID-19 public vaccinations skipped Eunice, but there are two locations listed in Opelousas.

Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will be available to pharmacies statewide in limited supply beginning Monday to be administered to people 70 and older and additional health care workers.