Case counts this month in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida are higher than at any other point of the pandemic.
In Louisiana, case counts dropped 10% from a pandemic high of 5,839 cases per day on August 15 to 5,252 cases on August 19. The state's case rate of 113 new daily cases per 100,000 people is second to its neighbor Mississippi, which has 120 new cases per 100,000 people. With a seven-day average of 3,582 new cases on August 19, the number of cases in the state is 45% higher than its winter peak on January 10.
