New Orleans vaccine mandate for children begins Monday
For the city of New Orleans, the start of a new year also means the start of a new vaccine mandate for children.
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For the city of New Orleans, the start of a new year also means the start of a new vaccine mandate for children.
To enter restaurants and other businesses in the city, children ages 5 and up will have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test.
More than 6,000 new Covid-19 cases were identified in Louisiana on Wednesday (Dec. 29). A teenage boy was injured in the second of two Desire-area shootings Tuesday evening. Three lions at the Audubon Zoo tested positive for Covid on Wednesday. In a case of mistaken identity, 7-year-old Dillan Burton was shot to death Sunday night […]
The city mandate for kids 5-to-11 is set to start on Jan. 3.
Physician-in-Chief at Children's Hospital New Orleans, Dr. Mark Kline, joined Yasmin Vossoughian to discuss the surge in coronavirus cases among kids as the omicron variant spreads. He says his hospital's Covid positivity rate has increased from about 5% to almost 16% over the past week and warns that "this is not a benign disease for all children."