Reader Survey: How safe do you feel? Not that safe
We asked our readers how safe they felt, and 270 weighed in. Most aren’t ready yet to go back out into the world.
We asked our readers how safe they felt, and 270 weighed in. Most aren’t ready yet to go back out into the world.
Majority African-American areas in Lafayette Parish account for just 14% of the parish population, but they house 27% of the parish’s COVID-19 cases.
Source: City’s African-American areas are concentrated with coronavirus cases
Housing advocates say it’s a testament to the swift action taken to stand up emergency housing, isolate people at risk, rearrange facilities to allow for social distancing and communicate the threat to the people they work with.
It’s a bit surprising yet reassuring, but labor and delivery seems to be going smoothly at Lafayette hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Even if the coronavirus wasn’t causing a global depression, Lafayette’s city and parish general funds would be in rough shape. But now shortfalls in revenue are going to force some painful cuts.
Louisiana Department of Revenue Secretary Kim Robinson said the governor’s new directive will delay collecting the tax for two months until June 25. Legislative action would be required to suspend or forgive the tax permanently.
Source: Coronavirus: Edwards delays severance tax payments to help oil and gas industry
Lafayette General Health confirmed today that is working with Vitalant, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit community blood service providers, on collecting convalescent plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 as part of a program to treat patients infected with the virus.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday he will likely lift some restrictions currently mandated by his stay-at-home order when it expires April 30, but warned life still won’t be as it was before the coronavirus crisis.
“I don’t bet very often, but if you made me bet $1 I would bet on May 1 we’d be under a different order than we’re under now,” Edwards said. “But that really does depend on what happens over the next week or so because we have to make sure we have those 14 days where our trajectory is where we want it as it relates to cases and as it relates to hospital capacity and then an overall downward trajectory of (symptoms).
Source: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards likely to lift stay-at-home order May 1
African Americans account for 39% of coronavirus deaths in the state’s seven-parish health region but only 27% of the population.
Despite a surge of re-openings under the local “Safe Shop” policy, some Lafayette retailers are opting to keep their doors closed for now
At a time of incredible economic and financial uncertainty, the parish council can’t afford to rededicate CREATE’s millage to any other dedicated fund. Instead what’s needed is flexibility to navigate an uncertain future, which is why this millage should be redirected to the parish general fund.
Lafayette’s city and parish councils are back in session Tuesday with jam-packed agendas that include refinancing hundreds of millions in bonds, reorganizing more than a dozen boards and commissions, rededicating the CREATE millage, and more.
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