Statewide Impact: COVID-19 Testing, Training, and PPE
This infographic illustrates LSU’s efforts in providing testing, training, and personal protective equipment, or PPE, in all 64 Louisiana parishes.
Map showing LSU’s state-wide impact in regards to COVID-19 response: testing, training, and PPE.
BATON ROUGE, June 30, 2020 —
The LSU Health Shreveport mobile testing vans for COVID-19 that are enabled by the Emerging Viral Threat (EVT) lab has tested residents in the following parishes: Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, Union, Morehouse, Tensas, Catahoula, and Concordia in northern and central Louisiana.
The LSU River Road Testing Lab housed at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge has supported 18 medical facilities and first responders across the southern parts of Louisiana, in the following parishes: Calcasieu, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, Point Coupee, Tangipahoa, St. Tammany, Livingston, Ascension, Assumption, St. James, Iberville, Iberia, West Baton Rouge, and East Baton Rouge.
LSU training classes for COVID-19 safety through NCBRT/ACE have reached 24,941 first responders in all 64 parishes in Louisiana.
LSU's efforts in manufacturing and delivering personal protective equipment, or PPE, has reached thousands of medical workers on the front lines, including in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Eunice, Alexandria, and Shreveport, Louisiana.
Infographic by Elsa Hahne, LSU.
Elsa Hahne
LSU Office of Research & Economic Development
225-578-4774
ehahne@lsu.edu