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Dr. Lacey Cavanaugh, regional medical director for the Southwest Office of Public Health, was lately acknowledged by the Louisiana National Guard with its Distinguished Civilian Service Award for her work during the COVID-19 pandemic. LANG, Pafford and OPH employees collectively carried out 65,000 COVID-19 exams and administered 55,000 vaccines in Region 6’s eight parishes together with Rapides, Vernon, Winn, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, Avoyelles and LaSalle. FDA authorizes a second booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for folks 50 and older or folks 12 and older with moderate or extreme immunosuppression. Vaccines are actually obtainable for ages 5-17, and that is our biggest opportunity to cease the spread of COVID-19, cease Delta and Omicron variants in their tracks, and ensure safe, in-person learning for Louisiana’s children. These instance sentences are selected mechanically from numerous on-line information sources to mirror current utilization of the word ‘health.’ Views expressed in …