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.
By Derek Kravitz, Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation
The Biden administration is slowly opening 100 federally-run mass vaccination sites across the country in its first 100 days.
It s an ambitious goal and FEMA opened its first pilot sites last week in Los Angeles and Oakland. Other sites are planned for Queens and Brooklyn, New York and Houston, Dallas and Arlington, Texas. Louisiana has secured the Morial Convention Center for its mass vaccination site.
But the pitch for a FEMA-run site is more involved than the federal questionnaire and an official request. Emails obtained by the Columbia University s Brown Institute for Media Innovation reveal that the New Orleans Health Department prepared a letter for Mayor LaToya Cantrell to give to the Biden administration on her Feb. 12 visit to the White House.
The new force of community health workers in the city can be a model for the country.
Pamela Bourgeois hands a flyer for COVID-19 testing to businesses in New Orleans on October 5th, 2020. [Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP/Shutterstock]
By LaToya Cantrell Raj Shah and Saket Soni 4 minute Read
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America enters the new year with great hope for defeating the pandemic, but also in desperate need of extra investment to finish the job.
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Although the new year began as last year ended, amid waves of political discord, a tsunami of COVID-19 cases, and overstretched hospitals, we can finally see the end of the pandemic. Now, policymakers, and healthcare workers, and others are grappling with how to quickly get relief and vaccines to communities and people who need them the most and how to build trust where many people are wary of them.
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February 19, 2021
New Orleans Health Department Partners with NOPD to Officially Add Question of Firearm Possession to Domestic Violence Police Reports
NEW ORLEANS The New Orleans Health Department’s Domestic Violence Program today announced its partnership with the New Orleans Police Department to add a fifth risk question on the Department’s electronic police report that directs patrol officers and asks all victims about the presence and possession of firearms at every domestic violence incident.
“The ability to add this risk question is a direct result of collaboration between advocates and criminal justice partners,” said
Originally published on February 15, 2021 3:17 pm
New Orleans is expected to experience freezing temperatures beginning at 3 p.m. today. The freeze will last for 12 hours, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said at a press conference Monday in which she told New Orleanians to “stay home and stay safe.”
Any water on the roadways from the rain and sleet earlier in the day can turn into ice on the roads.
Cantrell said her main concern with the freeze is the quality of the city’s drinking water.
Ghassan Korban, executive director of the Sewerage and Water Board, said the city will likely have to issue a boil water advisory if there is a spike in water main breaks.