Vice President Mike Pence visits with Governor John Bel Edwards in Baton Rouge today. Edwards says the visit comes following the selection of Baton Rouge as one of the three metropolitan areas in the nation to be selected to receive federal resources for surge testing.
“Louisiana has been on the radar, literally front and center, of the White House coronavirus task force since the very beginning when we had the highest case growth in the country. We’ve never come off that radar,” said Edwards.
The Governor and the VP will meet with education and health officials as well as members of Louisiana’s Congressional delegation concerning the state’s response to the pandemic.
Edwards and Pence will also take part in a roundtable discussion at Tiger Stadium with higher education leaders to discuss college sports as well as the fall reopening plans.
“What we are doing to safely resume, hopefully, on-campus in-person instruction on time and what that mix of education is going to be like between in-person and perhaps distance leanring,” said Edwards.
Edwards says the success of LSU’s football team may have also contributed to motivating the VP to make the trip to the Bayou State.
“LSU is a tempting target for anybody because it is LSU. And we’re the current national champions and he gets an opportunity to come down and be on that fine university,” said Edwards.