Omicron cases continue to dominate spread

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) estimates the proportion of Omicron cases in our state has increased from 88.5% to 90.2% for the week ending January 1.* As of Thursday, January 6, LDH reported 10,403 new cases of the coronavirus bringing the number of total cases to 879,549. Of that number, 1,287 were patients in the hospital; and 48 were patients on ventilators. The…