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The city recently received almost $4 million to increase vaccination efforts. Share Updated: 5:32 PM CDT Jul 13, 2021
The city recently received almost $4 million to increase vaccination efforts. Share Updated: 5:32 PM CDT Jul 13, 2021
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Show Transcript THIS IS WDSU NEWS AT 5. WE REALLY NEED TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH DELTA. THAT’S NEW ORLEANS TOP HEALTH. SOCIAL SOUNDING THE ALARM. SHE YSSA THE DELTA VARIANT JEOPARDIZES ALL THE PGRROESS THAT WE’VE MEAD SINCE THE PANDEMIC STARTED THIS AS WE ALL LOOK FORWARD TO A BUSY FALL WITH FESTIVALS SAINTS GAMES AND SO MUCH MORE BUT AS WDSU’S MORGAN LENTES EXPLAINS THERE IS AT WORK TO DO NOW TO GET US THERE SAFELY. SHE’S LIVE AT CITY HALL TO EXPLAIN MORGAN. HEY GUYS. YEAH, SO THE CITY RECENTLY RECEIVED ALMOST 4 MILLION DOLLARS TO INCREASE VACCINATION EFFORTANS D DR.
Health workers going door-to-door to help New Orleanians get on COVID vaccine wait list
Teams of community health workers are now going door to door – to help residents sign up for a citywide COVID vaccine waitlist. Author: Paul Murphy / Eyewitness News Published: 5:38 PM CST February 25, 2021 Updated: 5:38 PM CST February 25, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Pastors, priests and other New Orleans faith leaders gathered at Abundant Life Tabernacle Church in the St. Claude neighborhood on Thursday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I believe that the vaccine is the one way to protect first others and I see hundreds of people every day and it’s the best way to protect myself,” Father John Dominic Sims from St. Anthony Parish said.
False claims tying coronavirus vaccines to infertility drive doubts among women of childbearing age
Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post
Feb. 22, 2021
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Niharika Sathe, center, an internal medicine physician, is in her second trimester of pregnancy. She decided to get the coronavirus vaccine after investigating false reports that it was linked to fertility issues.Photo for The Washington Post by Rachel Wisniewski
Niharika Sathe, a 34-year-old internal medicine physician in New Jersey, first heard the fertility rumor from another doctor.
The friend confided that she would decline the coronavirus vaccine because of something she d seen online - that the shot could cause the immune system to attack the placenta, potentially leading to miscarriage and infertility. Sathe, who was early in her pregnancy at the time but had not told anyone, spent the next few weeks scrutinizing information from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Soci