Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will hold his annual end of the year news conference at 12 p.m. today.
Officials have not disclosed exactly what the governor will discuss during the news conference but he will likely address the state’s continued recovery from COVID-19 and Hurricane Ida.
Louisiana experienced two surges of COVID-19 this year, beginning the year with the state in the midst of a wave that began in November 2020 and then with its highest rate of cases and hospitalizations last summer. A record number of patients, 3,022, were hospitalized with COVID-19 during the peak of the summer surge on Aug. 17.
Earlier this week Gov. Edwards announced he was rejecting the Louisiana House Committee on Health and Welfare’s decision to not require Louisiana students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The governor overruled the legislative committee and mandated the COVID-19 vaccine be added to the school immunization schedule. That topic will probably also be discussed.
