Rosemary Westwood
Rosemary Westwood is the public and reproductive health 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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It’s now clear that the unprecedented fourth surge of the pandemic has peaked. But experts worry that the virus is still raging in Louisiana.
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The mandate will be extended for 28 days. Case numbers and hospitalizations are dropping, but hospitals in the state are still handling four times the COVID-19 patients compared to late June, before the fourth wave began.
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Six pregnant women and 10 fetuses have died of COVID-19 since mid-July, the Louisiana Department of Health reported Tuesday.
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Two virus-related child deaths have happened in less than a week in Louisiana. Low vaccination rates among adults can leave kids under 11 that can't get the shot more susceptible to the disease.
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Louisiana’s abortion clinics are struggling to keep up with an influx of patients across the state border, after Texas enacted a six-week abortion ban. Louisiana lawmakers could consider passing a similar law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear arguments in December in a case that could see the court overturn or functionally gut Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court precedent that established constitutional abortion rights — and simultaneously let a restrictive abortion ban take effect in Louisiana.
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City officials are now promising new regulations for independent living centers to fill in what they say is a gap that left hundreds in the sweltering heat and darkness.
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Several nursing homes across Louisiana are losing their licenses and senior living facilities in New Orleans are being shuttered because of deaths and unsafe or substandard living conditions during and after Hurricane Ida.
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Reporter Rosemary Westwood spoke with the director of the New Orleans Health Department, Dr. Jennifer Avengo, about the evacuations of eight seniors apartments in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
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Across a coastline battered and torn by Hurricane Ida, a new threat is emerging: the risks that come with trying to survive the recovery. Most of the region was under a heat advisory Wednesday with little indication temperatures would dip meaningfully in the coming days.