Experts are concerned that Hurricane Ida’s impact will worsen the spread of COVID-19 in Louisiana’s low-lying parishes, where vaccination rates are low—in some only about a third of the population—and cases have surged to all-time highs. As USA Today reports, crowded storm shelters, delayed treatments and inundated hospitals put communities at dire risk for more
Louisiana could be a ‘pandemic tinderbox’ in Hurricane Ida’s wake
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