After Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday that masks would not be required in most places statewide except in certain schools, some public health experts said not only should masks remain mandatory in all schools, but it’s too soon for the rest of the state to take them off.
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NASHVILLE Public health departments have held vaccine clinics at churches. They have organized rides to clinics. Gone door to door. Even offered a spin around a NASCAR track for anyone willing to get a shot. Still, the country’s vaccination campaign is sputtering, especially in the South, where there are far more doses than people who will take them. As reports of new Covid-19 cases and deaths plummet, and as many Americans venture out.
A vaccinator prepares a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. March 4, 2020.
The mask requirements are largely off in New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana, but the COVID-19 threat is by no means over. Instead, the calculations for personal risk have only become more complex.
You can take your mask off if you’re fully vaccinated a move New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell announced last week. But there’s also no enforcement for those who
haven’t been vaccinated and leave the mask at home. You won’t know whether the maskless person next you has had all their jabs, or just doesn’t want to wear a mask anymore. For people with children or medically vulnerable family members, the question is even more important. And it remains unclear whether or how much vaccinated people might still spread the coronavirus.