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Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center has paused its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees as litigation over the policy plays out. 

Pharmacist Joan Broussard closed her eyes and inhaled sharply as the needle pierced her left arm, but quickly recovered when Meshoca Williams asked her how she was doing. “I’m fabulous,” Broussard said as Williams, a licensed practical nurse, pushed down on the plunger, injecting her with one of the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine administered in Baton Rouge. Broussard then danced back and forth, holding up a card certifying her vaccination against the virus that causes COVID-19, blamed for the deaths of 504 people in the East Baton Rouge Parish. “I just got chills ...

The first shots of the vaccine for the COVID-19 in Baton Rouge are set to be given Tuesday afternoon. Ochsner Health will be the first hospital system in the city to receive its doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday, according to Ochsner spokesman Daryl Cetnar. The first batch will have 975 doses, and injections to hospital staff will begin that afternoon, Cetnar said.  Baton Rouge General is expected to receive its first shipment of the vaccine on Wednesday morning, and vaccinations will begin that same morning, Baton Rouge General spokeswoman Katie Johnston said.  Our Lady o...