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Louisiana Considered

Louisiana Considered: Dr. Joseph Kanter on lifting Louisiana’s mask mandate

By Patrick Madden,

Aubry Procell

Published October 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM CDT

Patrick Madden hosted this Wednesday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.
Meteorologist Dan Holiday joins us to discuss the threat posed by storms heading our way from the west Wednesday afternoon.
WWNO/WRKF Public Health reporter Rosemary Westwood talks to Dr. Joseph Kanter, the state’s health officer, about Louisiana’s indoor mask mandate being lifted earlier this week, except in some settings.
In an excerpt from this week’s “Bookmark” from WWNO/WRKF’s weekly show The Reading Life, host Susan Larson speaks with writers Emilie Rhys and John Ed Bradley about Rhys’s new book, "New Orleans Music Observed: The Art of Noel Rockmore and Emilie Rhys."

Louisiana Considered

Patrick Madden

Patrick was the Regional News Director for the news collaboration between WRKF Baton Rouge and WWNO New Orleans, from 2019 through 2023.

Aubry Procell

Aubry is a reporter, producer and operations assistant in Baton Rouge.