New Orleans is an epicenter of coronavirus in Louisiana and Mardi Gras could be to blame, doctors say.
“I think it came during Mardi Gras given the timing of it. Someone brought it here and then it starts spreading slowly," Dr. Joshua Denson, a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, told NBC News.
"I diagnosed the second case, the first critically-ill patient, here last weekend. Her timing was about two weeks post Mardi Gras," he said. The incubation period, the time between when a person contracts a virus and starts to show symptoms, for coronavirus is between 2 and 14 days, according to the"This is a very important point for the American public — what we’re seeing in the hospitals now are people who most likely got exposed and sick more than two weeks ago, so you’re seeing what was occurring two and three weeks ago," Dr.
Dr. Richard Oberhelman, the chairman of the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, also thinks Carnival crowds provided a perfect breeding ground for the highly contagious coronavirus to spread. “People are really packed close together, especially for some of the big parades in the downtown section and really all along the route. There are a lot of opportunities for close contact and transmission,” Oberhelman said.
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