Pandemic: New Orleans, before and after lockdown

Above: People hang out at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Below: The same site one week later, on March 19.

In late March photojournalist Sophia Germer documented the sites of New Orleans before and after Louisiana ordered bars, dine-in restaurants, malls, casinos and entertainment venues closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Bourbon Street

People walk on Bourbon Street amid the outbreak of coronavirus in New Orleans, Saturday, March 14, 2020 (top). Bourbon Street is clear after the bars are closed due to the pandemic, Thursday, March 19, 2020 (bottom).

Bourbon Street

A view of Bourbon Street on Saturday, March 14, 2020 (above), and the following Thursday (below).

French Quarter

Top: The scene outside Pat O'Brien's Bar in New Orleans, March 14, 2020. Bottom: The same, March 19, 2020.

Bourbon Street

People walk on Bourbon Street amid the outbreak of coronavirus in New Orleans, Saturday, March 14, 2020 (top). Bourbon Street is clear after the bars are closed due to the pandemic, Thursday, March 19, 2020.

Bourbon Street

Top: People listen to a DJ on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Saturday, March 14, 2020. Bottom: The same site, empty, on Thursday, March 19, 2020.

Washington Artillery Park

Top: People hang out at Washington Artillery Park in New Orleans, Saturday, March 14, 2020. Bottom: The same view on Thursday, March 19, 2020.

French Market

Crowds outside Cafe Du Monde on Decatur Street on Sunday, March 15, 2020, have disappeared by the following Thursday.

French Quarter

Boards cover up windows of businesses shuttered in the French Market area of the French Quarter amid the coronavirus pandemic, in New Orleans, Sunday, March 29, 2020.

Shuttered

Businesses closed amid the coronavirus pandemic are boarded up, in New Orleans, Saturday, March 28, 2020.

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

The Medical Monitoring Station (MMS) fills the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans amid the coronavirus pandemic, Saturday, April 4, 2020. The field hospital has begun accepting less-fragile COVID-19 positive patients to alleviate stress on the city's hospitals.

Sophia Germer

New Orleans-based Sophia Germer is an award-winning photojournalist for The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate (NOLA.com). After obtaining her BFA degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, Germer has exhibited her images at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans; the Loin Gallery in San Francisco; and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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sophiagermerphotography.com
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Edited by CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan