When New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced late last year that parades would not be allowed to roll for Mardi Gras 2021, we knew that was only the beginning of the big shut down. Our most famous holiday brings in millions and millions of people, and a huge economic impact across the state. And it really stings that most Mardi Gras activities have come to a screeching halt due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
New Orleans Police issued some rules yesterday that pretty much insured that carnival revelers would not be welcome in the French Quarter and across the city for any festivities this weekend. But not everybody is shutting down on Fat Tuesday, and the weekend leading up to Mardi Gras day, which is February 16th.
A new study on the initial outbreak of the coronavirus in New Orleans has found that last year’s Mardi Gras was responsible for tens of thousands of confirmed cases. In a report released on Monday, researchers at the Scripps Research Institute, Tulane University, noted that nearly 800 people contracted the potentially deadly virus by the end of the festivities on Feb. 25, and those individuals went on to trigger a surge in cases with a reported 50,000 confirmed infections, Nola.com reports. “The entire outbreak in Louisiana is almost certainly fueled by what happened on Mardi Gras,” said Mark Zeller, one of the authors of the study.
Bolton
Shantay Bolton, vice president and deputy chief operating officer at Tulane University, has been appointed executive vice chancellor for administration and chief administrative officer at Washington University in St. Louis, effective July 1, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin. Bolton will succeed Henry S. Webber, who will formally transition to the newly created position of executive vice chancellor for civic affairs and strategic planning when Bolton assumes her new role.
A St. Louis native, Bolton has nearly two decades of experience in the areas of transformational organizational development, disruptive human resources and operational change management, complemented by savvy business acumen. She has been in her current role for the past year, after previously serving as Tulane’s first vice president for human resources and institutional equity, where she successfully led the merging of two departments to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive community to
When New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced late last year that parades would not be allowed to roll for Mardi Gras 2021, we knew that was only the beginning of the big shut down. Our most famous holiday brings in millions and millions of people, and a huge economic impact across the state. And it really stings that most Mardi Gras activities have come to a screeching halt due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
New Orleans Police issued some rules yesterday that pretty much insured that carnival revelers would not be welcome in the French Quarter and across the city for any festivities this weekend. But not everybody is shutting down on Fat Tuesday, and the weekend leading up to Mardi Gras day, which is February 16th.