- The average daily case rate in Louisiana is 89 Covid-19 infections per 100,000 people.
- This number is higher than any state in the United States or any country in the world.
- Florida and Arkansas are also among the top 5 highest infection rates in the world.
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Louisiana has become a national coronavirus hotspot in this pandemic, and the case rate has soared. The number of hospitalizations “index” surges In recent weeks.
Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm (Michael Osterholm) said that the average daily number of cases in Louisiana is even higher than any other country in the world. CNN today.
“If Louisiana were a country, it would have the highest [Covid-19] Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said.
The state currently has an average of 89 cases per 100,000 residents per day. New York Times.
The only country with more cases per capita is Fiji, an island country with a population of less than 900,000. Fiji has an average of 117 cases per 100,000 residents per day, but the daily total in Louisiana is much higher when the population is included.
Osterholm told Insider that he only considered countries with a population of more than 1 million, because smaller countries “even with only 20-30 cases, the infection rate can be high.”
In fact, the territory of Gibraltar technically has The third highest case rate in the world, There are only 26 daily cases and 33,701 residents.
When excluding the smallest countries, Cuba and Georgia (the country) ranked second and third in Covid-19 infection rates this week.
if Florida If it were a country, it would rank fourth, with an average of 74 cases per 100,000 residents per day. Arkansas has the fifth highest infection rate in the world, with 62 cases per 100,000 people per day.
Delta variants are mainly driving the surge in the following states Low vaccination rate, Most of them are Republicans and are gathered in the southern United States.
Fortunately, Vaccination rates start to riseIn recent weeks, the new vaccination rates in Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas have reached their highest levels to stop the increase in Covid-19 infection rates.
