New Orleans has some of the highest coronavirus infection rates in the U.S. -- yet it's overlooked

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New Orleans has some of the highest coronavirus infection rates in the U.S. -- yet it's overlooked
BY GORDON RUSSELL and JEFF ADELSON | Staff writers Published Mar 23, 2020 at 8:15 pm | Updated Mar 23, 2020 at 8:57 pm

Orleans Parish has the sixth-highest rate of known coronavirus cases of any county in the U.S., and it’s the only county among the nation’s top 10 that is not in the New York metro area, an analysis by The Times-Picayune and The Advocate shows.

Yet New Orleans has gotten scarce mention in national discussion of the pandemic. Over the weekend, for instance, President Donald Trump said he was approving major disaster declarations and National Guard deployments for New York, California and Washington state because of the pandemic's impact on those places...

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Dr. Rebekah Gee, the state’s former health director and now head of LSU’s health care services division, thinks the city is being dangerously overlooked.

“Louisiana is set to become the epicenter” of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., Gee warned in an interview Sunday with KLFY-TV. “Louisiana needs to be a priority. Louisiana needs help. We need more people; we need more creative solutions; and we need more assets to be deployed here so we can solve this problem.”
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New Orleans emerges as next coronavirus epicenter, threatening rest of South
by Reuters
Wednesday, 25 March 2020 20:46 GMT
By Brad Brooks

March 25 (Reuters) - New Orleans is on track to become the next coronavirus epicenter in the United States, dimming hopes that less densely populated and warmer-climate cities would escape the worst of the pandemic, and that summer months could see it wane.

The plight of New Orleans - with the world's highest growth rate in coronavirus cases - also raises fears that the city may become a powerful catalyst in spreading the virus across the south of the country. Authorities have warned the number of cases in New Orleans could overwhelm its hospitals by April 4...