Calamities and politics have gone hand-in-hand in Louisiana for a long time, and it is almost a certainty that the coronavirus crisis will be no different.
Five more positive tests for COVID-19 in St. Mary were reported at noon Friday by the Louisiana Office of Public Health.
“If you wait for these numbers to grab your attention, guess what?
The big one-day increase in COVID-19 infections reported Thursday has much to do with a backlog of cases at commercial testing labs, said Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.
The noon Thursday report shows that St. Mary Parish's COVID-19 case count grew by 16 to 42 since noon Wednesday, according to the Louisiana Office of Public Health.
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