Carlin Stewart, Contributing Columnist
• February 22, 2022
On Sunday, Dec. 5, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed the first official case of the omicron COVID-19 variant in Louisiana. By early January of 2022, Louisiana had surpassed the previous...
Ava Crowe, Contributing Columnist
• February 15, 2022
At Tulane University and many colleges alike, sorority recruitment can be an extremely high-stress endeavor for those going through the process for the first time, as well as for the active members.
Prior...
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Just three months later, U.S. COVID-19 cases reached two million, with no end in sight.
The global pandemic brought novel challenges. Uncertainty...
Martha Sanchez, Associate News Editor
• January 28, 2022
Tulane University recorded 126 COVID-19 cases in students’ first week back on campus after an end-of-semester Omicron outbreak in December.
Ninety of the positive cases are students. Thirty-six...
As of Dec. 8, Tulane University School of Medicine laboratories had processed at least 23 COVID-19 tests which were suspected or confirmed to be the omicron variant.
The data, procured through...
Since the start of the fall semester, Tulane University administered 79,236 COVID-19 tests, 604 of which have returned positive. Of those 604 positive tests, 464 were students and 140 were employees. Tulane’s...
As an outbreak of COVID-19 cases metastasizes through Tulane University — suspected by administrators and students to be the omicron variant — the university’s contact tracing system appears to be...
Tulane announced it is reinstituting an indoor mask mandate for all students, faculty and staff, regardless of vaccination status, as a result of more omicron cases being identified within the Tulane community.
The...
As of Dec. 8, Tulane University completed 72,618 COVID-19 tests during the fall semester, 335 of which were positive. Tulane has a seven-day 0.7% testing positive rate, the same as Orleans Parish....
In a statement emailed to students on Dec. 6, Tulane University announced that a Tulane graduate student tested positive for the omicron variant of COVID-19, and the student has been placed in isolation.
This...
The Louisiana Department of Health announced that it is monitoring a likely case of the omicron variant, the latest strand of COVID-19, in Louisiana. The case has been traced to an individual residing...
As of Nov. 30, Tulane University has completed 68,886 COVID-19 tests during the fall semester, 308 of which were positive. Tulane has a seven-day 0.2% positivity rate, while Orleans Parish reported a positivity...
