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HURRICANE KATRINA Previous Volume 353:1551 October 13, 2005 Number 15 Next

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There is nothing that I had ever witnessed in the United States to which I could compare the scene outside the New Orleans Convention Center. Thousands upon thousands of people were collected on the boulevard — from infants to the elderly to people in wheelchairs. Many elderly people lay on sheets and blankets on the median strip (or "neutral ground," as we call it in New Orleans). There were screaming men, women, and children and dazed, quiet, and confused men, women, and children. Most were black, but many were white. It was as if the entire city had vomited up . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans

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