City of New Orleans to Provide Free Flu Shots Friday, Testing Vaccine Administration Plans from Office of the Mayor, City of New Orleans On Friday, Dec. 11, the City of New Orleans will host a free, walk-up flu vaccine event at First Grace United Methodist Church, serving the dual purpose of providing flu shots to Read More…
Free COVID-19 testing is returning to Mid-City this Thursday (May 21) and Friday (May 22). Ochsner Health has expanded its community COVID-19 testing efforts in Orleans Parish beginning on Tuesday (May 19) and Wednesday (May 20), when tests will be performed at the Asia Baptist Church, 1400 Sere St., in the St. Bernard area. On Read More…
The city’s Health Department, LCMC Health and LSU Health Sciences Center are conducting a mobile testing campaign for COVID-19 across the metro area over the coming weeks, with two stops in Mid-City neighborhoods. The first begins today. From Monday (May 4) through Wednesday (May 6), tests will be performed at Comiskey Playground, 600 S. Jefferson Read More…
Xavier University is the first site in a campaign bring COVID-19 testing to medically vulnerable communities. Walk-up testing will be available at Xavier from Tuesday (April 21) through Friday of this week. LCMC Health, the New Orleans Health Department and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center will be conducting a mobile testing campaign for COVID-19 Read More…
The Mid-City Neighborhood Organization has compiled this list of resources available for those affected by the shutdowns necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes legal services, delivery services and other food needs, relief for gig workers and more.
By Danae Columbus, opinion columnist Joe Sobol Sr. was born with an entrepreneurial spirit. The Riccobonos, his mother’s family, came to New Orleans after Sicily’s devastating famine in the 1880s. They first sold produce and then macaroni in the French Quarter. Eventually they opened The Pearl Restaurant and Oyster Bar at 119 St. Charles Ave., Read More…
By Emily Carmichael, guest columnist A week and a half into quarantine with COVID-19, I was shaking. I piled a blanket on top of myself and rocked side to side, occasionally moaning, nestling ever deeper into the joints of my couch. My heart felt like it was racing, my head pounded. Yes, according to my Read More…
In response to COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority is further reducing its service beginning Sunday (March 29). Some routes will remain on a Saturday schedule, other lines will run less frequently, and some routes will be eliminated during the coronavirus crisis. In addition, the RTA will waive transit fares for bus, streetcar Read More…
By Kristine Froeba, opinion columnist COVID-19 can live up to eight hours on cardboard takeout boxes and up to 72 on Styrofoam containers, straws, cups and plastic bags, says a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine. Airborne droplets can linger in the air for three to four hours after a person has Read More…
By Sharon Lurye, Mid-City Messenger Delgado Community College donated around 900 cartons worth of medical supplies to local hospitals on Monday, including more than 500 N-95 masks, plus surgical face masks, isolation gowns, and sterile gloves. It is also loaning out four ventilators, critical to coronavirus patients so sick that they cannot breathe on their Read More…
