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New Orleans public school students will spend most of January learning remotely. The district-wide order will last for at least two weeks and allows very young students and students with special needs to keep learning in-person at the discretion of their school.
NOLA-PS was still planning for an in-person semester as of Dec. 30 and didn’t change course until after students had returned from winter break the following Monday.
Officials say the decision to pivot was based on a recent rise in the city’s test positivity rate, which emerged early in the new year. On Jan. 3, the city’s rate jumped from 7.65 percent to 8.9 percent. Since then, the city’s daily test positivity rate has hovered around 9 percent.
The Louisiana Department of Health is asking hospitals with excess COVID-19 vaccine doses to begin administering them to patients who fit into the Tier 1B
Originally published on December 17, 2020 1:04 pm
There are 1,602 people hospitalized with COVID-19 across Louisiana as of Dec. 17, just barely topping a previous peak of 1,600 on July 24 and 27.
This comes as health officials urge people to celebrate their Christmas and other end-of-year holidays with their immediate family members only and to abstain from unnecessary travel to help flatten this third spike of the virus.
Dr. Katherine Baumgarten, medical director of infection control and prevention at Ochsner Health, in a recent interview attributed the rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations at Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson to Thanksgiving gatherings.
The state hospitals are currently at 76 percent capacity. A
Officials test mass vaccine distribution with free flu shot event (Source: unsplash.com) By Josh Roberson | December 11, 2020 at 5:54 AM CST - Updated December 11 at 7:17 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Friday, city and state officials will offer free flu vaccines to New Orleans residents.
The walk-up event will also be used as a test run on how to distribute the coronavirus vaccine to the public when the time comes.
The event will be free to the public and is obviously important as health experts have warned all year that flu season could be an even bigger problem this year in addition to the current pandemic.