Mask advisory returns to New Orleans as Covid cases surge
As Louisiana wades through another spike in Covid-19 cases, doctors and public officials warn that widespread vaccination is the only way to outpace mutations like the highly contagious delta variant.
A man stands and looks around on a nearly empty Bourbon Street in New Orleans last year. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
NEW ORLEANS (CN) At his own pre-wedding party on a river outside New Orleans last month, Brian Coore, who’d had a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine a few days before, contracted Covid-19 from two friends who had each been fully vaccinated and were asymptomatic.