Rosemary Westwood
Public Health ReporterRosemary Westwood is the public reporter for WWNO/WRKF. She was previously a freelance writer specializing in gender and reproductive rights, a radio producer, columnist, magazine writer and podcast host.
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When she was pregnant, Kaitlyn Joshua struggled to get medical care — and answers — in post-Roe Louisiana, where abortion is banned. -
Louisiana’s so-called “trigger laws” that criminalized abortion procedures and shuttered the state’s clinics immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade were blocked by a state judge on Monday.
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Attorney General Jeff Landry has moved to join a lawsuit against New Orleans city officials seeking to strike down the city’s mask and vaccine mandates.
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The omicron surge that has caused a record number of Louisianans to contract COVID-19 could be peaking.
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COVID-19 cases soared at New Orleans Public Schools during the first week of instruction in 2022, mirroring the skyrocketing cases across the city and the state, while some East Baton Rouge Parish schools pivot to virtual learning in January.
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Louisiana marked a new record high for daily COVID-19 cases reported to the state on Thursday, with 14,007 new cases reported.
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Louisiana hospitals are reporting a sharp spike in children made seriously ill by COVID-19 as the omicron surge continues to gather steam, but officials said it’s too soon to tell how severe the surge will end up being for kids.
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Demand for COVID-19 tests is soaring in Louisiana amid the omicron surge, leading to longer wait times, shortages of rapid tests and forcing state officials to compete with other states on the open market.
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Pediatricians and state officials worry that the same misinformation fueling COVID-19 vaccine skepticism and politicization could spread and ultimately undermine confidence in all vaccines.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a suit stemming from a 15-week abortion ban passed in Mississippi in 2018. The case will be streamed at 9 a.m. CT.
