New Orleans area's coronavirus death rate is highest in US, data show
By Brie Stimson | Fox News
The New Orleans area in southeast Louisiana had the highest coronavirus death rate in the U.S. as of Friday, according to a report.
Many of the fatalities have been spurred on in part by patients' underlying health issues, Gov. John Bel Edwards said.
Deaths per capita in St. John the Baptist Parish and Orleans Parish, which includes New Orleans, have even outpaced hard-hit New York, according to Gary Wagner, an economics professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"Basically the River parishes plus Terrebonne and Lafourche [are] having what we currently believe to be the highest growth rate and spread of COVID cases in the state,†Edwards said last week, according to FOX 8 in New Orleans.
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