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Clancy: Louisiana reaches 1,000 COVID-19 deaths at pivotal moment

News that Louisiana has recorded more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 comes at a pivotal time for our state.

NEW ORLEANS — Benchmarks help us put things in perspective. Sadly, Louisiana’s latest benchmark — more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths — is a stark reminder of just how vulnerable we remain to the dreaded pandemic.

It also comes just as people across Louisiana, and especially in metro New Orleans, were beginning to hold out hope that maybe, just maybe, we were beginning to flatten the curve. And hopefully, we are!

But the truth is we still have a long way to go. So, as Governor John Bel Edwards and other responsible leaders keep reminding us, we have to continue following the stay-at-home order.

Now more than ever, we need to be steadfast. To make that curve fall, we need to stay the course. And that means staying at home.

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