Officials have instructed the Department of Health not to promote several vaccines, including COVID-19, influenza and mpox vaccines.

The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed two winter weather-related deaths Friday afternoon after a winter storm this week.

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The LDH reported one winter weather-related death in the state this year—a 65-year-old man in Rapides Parish who died due to hypothermia—and advised people to stay inside during the extreme cold and to seek shelter if unhoused.

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The rare winter storm that brought record freezing temperature and snowfall in Louisiana caused at least two deaths.

The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) urges residents to prepare for extreme cold next week as a winter storm system brings freezing temperatures and the possibility

The coroners in each parish designated both deaths as weather-related. The hypothermia death is the second one in Louisiana this year. On Jan. 9, the health department reported a 65-year-old Rapides Parish man died from exposure to winter weather conditions.

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Hospital emergency rooms and ambulances continued to operate even as temperatures dropped and South Louisiana was blanketed with the most snow it has seen in decades.