| By Chad Calder | Staff writer
HOUSING HUNT: For those whose homes and apartments were rendered inhabitable by Hurricane Ida, the road to recovering is further hampered by a scramble to keep a roof over your head. We've spoke to some of the folks gutting their homes in LaPlace about their struggle to find hotels, apartments ... any place to lay their heads.
WHO'S TO JUDGE? An Abita Springs woman died of COVID-19 last month, the day after a St. Tammany Parish judge ruled that the hospital caring for her should allow her to be treated with ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that has been self-prescribed by some despite the fact that there is no evidence it helps against the disease. While the ruling didn't come in time to affect this particular case, experts say courts have typically not stepped in to make decisions usually saved for medical professionals.
IDA'S TOLL ON IRONTON: Three weeks after Ida, the recovery of Plaquemines Parish community of Ironton remains largely a grassroots affair, with residents working to clear roads and clean up debris. Among the many tasks still undone is gathering and accounting for the tombs and caskets pushed out of the town cemetery by the storm's floodwaters.
LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE? Oh, and the Saints lost, but enough about that.
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