HJBR Mar/Apr 2021

March / April 2021 I Vol. 14, No. 2 Contents FEATURES Sleeping Through COVID-19 ............................................. 8 Robert John Sawyer II, PhD, ABPP-CN Co-Director of Cognitive Disorders and Brain Health Program Ochsner Medical Center Elizabeth B. LeJeune, ACNP-BC, MSN Pulmonary/Sleep Specialist Ochsner Medical Complex — The Grove COVID-19 Vaccine Resistance Q&A ........................... 16 Charles Stoecker, PhD J.P. Morgan Chase Professorship in Health Care Finance, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine M. “Tonette” Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine State of Louisiana’s Hospitals ......................................... 20 Paul Salles President and CEO, Louisiana Hospital Association Louisiana Should Look to Nurse Practitioners to Strengthen Health Access .......................................... 27 Sophia L. Thomas, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, PPCNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP President, American Association of Nurse Practitioners Polluter’s Paradise: Air Quality Regulators in “Cancer Alley” Have Fallen Dangerously Behind .............................................. 30 27