Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as the state was facing a surge in Covid-19 cases. Will the hurricane cause cases to rise?
What’s happening behind shuttered doors and windows is also concerning to physicians, as many residents are crowded together in shelters or stuck in their homes without immediate access to testing or other medical care. Without a doubt, experts say, Covid-19 is spreading.Hurricane Ida barreled into Louisiana as the state was battling its biggest surge of Covid-19 to date.
“Everybody’s taking on more risk, including my own family,” Denson said. “Delta doesn’t really care. It stillGov. John Bel Edwards acknowledged the difficulties of responding to a hurricane during a pandemic. “This is a very challenging situation,” Edwards said Monday on MSNBC. The state intends to get evacuees into hotel rooms as quickly as possible to reduce interactions that could further the spread of Covid-19. State officials are also asking shelters to implement other mitigation measures, including masking and rapid testing.
Louisiana took a similar approach in August 2020, when another major hurricane slammed into the coast during the pandemic: Laura. Laura didn’t lead to an increase in cases, but doctors are concerned that the combination of the hypertransmissible nature of the delta variant and the high numbers of daily cases Louisiana was reporting before Ida hit could cause cases to surge.for full coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic
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