Today is the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Louisiana. Chief of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health New Orleans Dr. Julio Figueroa says looking back, COVID was likely spreading in February 2020.
“My colleagues in retrospect go well there was that patient who was really, really sick and was in the ICU for a long time period of time, could that be a patient with COVID,” said Figueroa.
Now that we know the main route of transmission is through respiratory droplets that spread when you are in close contact with a carrier, carnival season only enabled the virus to circulate faster in Louisiana.