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Louisiana hospitals expand who's getting their vaccine doses

by Melinda Deslatte
| January 5, 2021 12:03 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's health department encouraged hospitals on Tuesday to use their extra doses of the coronavirus vaccine to immunize people aged 70 and older, bidding to boost the limited supply available to hundreds of thousands of people newly eligible for the vaccine under state guidelines.

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