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One of the people who got a breakthrough COVID case credits the vaccine for protecting him against "something much worse."

She said she decided to take Pfizer shot after consulting with a science expert.  “He explained that the science behind this has been being researched for many years,” the Houma resident said. “I took it more so out of my concern for working with patients who have a much smaller chance of survival than I do. I care about them, and I will do everything in my power to protect them. "I would feel awful if I didn’t take it, got the virus then gave it to one of them and they died. I would feel guilty the rest of my life. I don’t want to live with that. I trust the science behind it. It�...

Local colleges not requiring the coronavirus vaccine As people continue to roll up their sleeves for the coronavirus vaccine, local college officials said the shot will not be required for students, faculty or staff.   Though Nicholls State University in Thibodaux and Fletcher Technical Community College in Schriever plan to return to traditional classes in the fall, requiring a COVID-19 vaccine will not be on the agenda.  “We’re not going to require the vaccine,” Fletcher Chancellor Dr. Kristine Strickland said. “That’s a personal choice for our faculty, staff and students....

DeSmog Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement on March 2 raising concerns about the further industrialization of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” This largely Black-populated stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is lined with more than a hundred refineries and petrochemical plants. The experts said additional petrochemical development in this region, which U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data shows has some of the country’s highest cancer risks from air pollution, constitutes “enviro...

DeSmog From Pollution to the Pandemic, Racial Equity Eludes Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Community Higher rates of COVID-19 infection and death have been found in people living in a stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge lined with over a hundred refineries and petrochemical plants. Mary Hampton, president of the Concerned Citizens of St. John the Baptist Parish, a community group in Louisiana fighting for clean air, opted to do everything in her power to avoid getting the coronavirus after Robert Taylor, the group’s founder, was hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this year. So she got ...