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Edwards worries about backsliding as virus deaths top 1,000

by Associated Press
| April 14, 2020 10:03 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards worries too many people are newly disobeying his stay-home order and putting the state at risk for a second spike in coronavirus infections as Louisiana reached a somber milestone Tuesday, with the virus death toll growing to more than 1,000.

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