COVID-19 cases at Tulane University rose during return to campus in August, mirroring statewide increases of illness that returned this summer — more than three years since the pandemic began.    In...

On March 21, Mayor LaToya Cantrell got rid of  the vaccine and testing mandate for most public spaces. This decision came because COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations around the time remained low despite...

Sharon Magee knows heartbreak. Some days, at the hospital where she works, COVID-19 patients have arrived and died before her shift ended.    All the grief often left her in tears.    So...

For as long as I have been streaming, I have been a die-hard Spotify user. Long have I hailed the superior discovery algorithms and social interfaces. I made a playlist every month, usually with about...

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...

Governor John Bel Edwards lifted Louisiana’s statewide mask mandate, excepting only K-12 schools, on Oct. 26.  In a press release, the Governor’s office said that the governor was “cautiously...

Many universities have announced they will be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations this upcoming fall as a safety measure for returning students. Cornell University, Duke University and Notre Dame are among...

The COVID-19 vaccine sign up link leaked Feb. 9 and was still in circulation at least a month later, and a number of non-eligible undergraduate students have successfully received the vaccine by using...

Resident Advisors at Tulane University have now been approved by the state of Louisiana to begin receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from the university, per special request from the university. Since being...

Some members of the Tulane community have begun to become eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the Phase 1A and 1B populations.  “First recipients of the [COVID-19] vaccine include Campus...