On Feb. 13, the U.S. Senate confirmed anti-vaccination activist and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a 52-48 vote as secretary of health and human services. In doing so, the Senate...

On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization determined that the recent surge in cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding countries constituted a...

This year, Tulane University Campus Health no longer requires the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines, but they are “strongly encouraged,” according to the Campus Health website.    Caesar...

Tulane University is hosting influenza vaccination clinics as the school approaches the first flu season in two years without pandemic protocols like masking and social distancing.    Students...

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...

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...

For the third time in two years, Tulane University students are flying home early and resorting to online classes and exams to evacuate a crisis. This time, undergraduate students are apprehensive...

The state of Louisiana opened up vaccination eligibility for everyone ages 16 and older for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 18 and older for the Moderna vaccine on March 29, 2021. Louisiana was one of...

The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine administration has recently been halted by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention due to six cases of a blood-clotting...

On Monday, March 29, Governor John Bel Edwards expanded the eligibility of the vaccine to every individual age 16 and over for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and everyone age 18 and over for the Johnson &...

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...