No port in a pandemic
Sep 03, 2021
3 minutes
By Alice Park
PHOTOGRAPH BY LUKE SHARRETT
The Brief is reported by Eloise Barry, Paulina Cachero, Madeleine Carlisle, Tara Law, Sanya Mansoor, Ciara Nugent and Billy Perrigo
WITH HURRICANE IDA THREATENING massive flooding, high winds and power outages on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, administrators at Marrero Healthcare Center, located in Lafourche Parish just northeast of where the Category 4 storm would soon make landfall, decided on Aug. 26 that it was time to leave.
Two days of hurried packing later, at noon, dozens of residents from the nursing and rehabilitation center
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