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The road to the first globally available COVID-19 vaccine ran through the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Trials involving nonhuman primates at UL Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center helped determine the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the world’s first fully tested COVID-19 immunization approved for emergency use.
“We are so privileged to have been on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic,” said Jane Fontenot, NIRC’s director of Contract Research. “It’s very rewarding.”

The Lafayette and Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Offices would like to warn citizens of a current phone scam in which the scammer is posing as a member of local law enforcement.
The scammer claims to have a warrant for the recipient’s arrest, demanding money in exchange for resolving the warrant.
Please be advised, neither the Lafayette nor the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office seeks any type of payment over the telephone.
The forms of payment the scammer requests are most often non-traceable and non-transferable, so recovery seldom happens.

United Way / Vermilion Vita Volunteers are sponsoring “SUPER TAX DAYS”, by preparing FREE Income Tax Returns in Abbeville for low-income individuals, on Saturday Feb. 13, 2021 at the Event Center 1905 Veterans Memorial Drive 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. and on Wednesdays at the Vermilion Council on Aging,1928 Graceland Ave.