“It’s on the trajectory to become the epicenter for the outbreak in the United States.”
A key factor of why coronavirus has hit New Orleans so hard may be the same reason why the city is known all over the world: Mardi Gras, the celebration before Ash Tuesday that brings millions of people to party in the streets. This year, Fat Tuesday fell on Feb. 25, which was after the coronavirus was introduced to the U.S. but. Mardi Gras was “the perfect storm,” to spread coronavirus, Rebekah Gee, who leads the health care services division at Louisiana State University, told Reuters.
“So New Orleans had its normal level of celebration, which involved people congregating in large crowds and some 1.4 million tourists,” Gee. “We shared drink cups. We shared each other’s space in the crowds. We shared floats where we were throwing not just beads, but probably coronavirus off Carnival floats to people who caught it and took it with them to where they came from.”The news out of New Orleans does not bode well for Houston, Texas, the fourth-largest city in the U.S.
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