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Cantrell: New Orleans under 5 percent positivity rate, no change in restrictions Share Updated: 4:24 PM CST Dec 16, 2020 WDSU Digital Team Share Updated: 4:24 PM CST Dec 16, 2020
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Show Transcript RESTRICTIONS FOR THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. GO AFTERNOON, I’M GINA SWANSON. MANY BARS WERE BRACING FOR INDO SERVICE TO BE SUSPENDED. AUBRY KILLION IS OUTSIDE OF CITY HALL WITH THE STORY. AUBRY: I JUST SPOKE WITH MAYOR CANTRELL. SHE SAYS BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING A DROP IN POSITIVE CASES, SHE’S NOT MAKING ANY CHANGES FOR NOW. LET ME WALK YOU THROUGH THE NEW DETAILS JUST-RELEASED AT A NEWS CONFERENCE BEHIND ME AT CITY HALL. THE CITY SAW ABOUT 5.2% OF THE COVID TESTS COMING BACK POSITIVE. THIS WEEK, IT WAS 4.75%. IF IT WA 5%, UNDER STATE GUIDELINES, INDOOR BAR SERVICE WOULD HAVE HAD TO STOP. THE MAYOR SAYS WHILE IT IS GOOD NEWS, WE ARE STILL NOT OUT OF THE WOODS JUST YET. THIS IS THE TIME TO CONTINUE TO DOUBLE DOWN ON DOING WHAT W
Just an hour after the first coronavirus vaccines arrived at Ochsner Healthâs Jefferson Highway main campus, they sat in glass vials in front …
On Tuesday, the vaccination list included two Louisiana doctors who have become familiar faces in the state because they regularly give public updates on the pandemic.
Dr. Jennifer Avegno, a New Orleans ER doctor and the head of the New Orleans Health Department, took the vaccine at University Medical Center in New Orleans. Alongside her was Dr. Joseph Kanter, the interim assistant secretary of the Office of Public Health and the former director of the New Orleans Health Department.
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At 1 p.m. Friday, a short line of people rounded the corner of busy Canal Street and shady North Clark Street in front of First Grace United Methodist Church to get their free flu vaccines. The New Orleans Health Department had organized another of its mass vaccination exercises to prepare for COVID-19 immunization efforts.
At First Grace, 20 volunteers were there to greet residents, fill out their information and direct them to the two vaccination stations set up inside the church foyer and the one set up outdoors for anyone who did not feel safe indoors. Seven medical professionals manned the vaccination stations, preparing needles with .5 cubic centimeters of the Fluzone vaccine.
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.