PONCHATOULA (Louisiana), Aug 8 — The crowd inside Floyd’s Family Pharmacy was abuzz with an agitated energy. Whether arriving for scheduled Covid vaccines or testing, people were motivated in part by fear of the Delta variant taking hold across the country as well as in this stately town...
PONCHATOULA , Aug 8 — The crowd inside Floyd’s Family Pharmacy was abuzz with an agitated energy.
“There is a huge uptick in the request for vaccines,” Talley said. “We’re back almost to how we were when the vaccine first came out.” Instead, local leaders have made it less convenient to pass up vaccination with such measures as a recent schools’ directive that unvaccinated teachers and students exposed to the virus would be forced to quarantine, with teachers not receiving any extra sick days as they did last year.
Tangipahoa Parish, where Ponchatoula is located, has seen four straight weeks of double-digit percent gains in the number of people being vaccinated. With just 30.4% of its population fully vaccinated, it has a long way to go.She said the Delta variant definitely got her attention, but it was the idea of having her daughter Gracie, 13, and son Jacob, 15, forced into extended quarantines and missing long stretches of school if exposed that prompted her to bring the kids in.
Just up the road from Ponchatoula in Hammond, an exhausted Dr. Robert Peltier, North Oaks Health System’s chief medical officer, lamented the long and mostly futile fight to convince his fellow “famously steadfast” Louisiana natives to get vaccinated.
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