Louisiana 'surge' testing sites extended as state sees testing shortages

BATON ROUGE- Since July 6, at least 20,577 people have been tested at one of the five federally-funded surge testing sites in the capital area, Gov. John Bel Edwards said during his weekly COVID-19 briefing Thursday.That total is a far cry from the 5,000 daily testing goal. With plenty of the allotted tests remaining, the sites, originally expected to close Saturday, will remain open."They will remain open now until we use all 60,000 of those tests," Edwards said. "We are also going to be able