Coronavirus is spreading faster in this US state than all of the others

[Andy Meek]

• Most of the reporting and analysis focused on the places seeing an increase in coronavirus cases in the US right now covers the usual suspects -- states like Florida, California, and Texas.
• However, there's one state that might surprise you in terms of specifically where the coronavirus outbreak is spreading the fastest, based on the average number of new cases per 100,000 people over the prior week.
• Louisiana now has more than 2,300 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents.

In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, New York had the scariest coronavirus picture and quickly became the epicenter of the crisis in the US. As the Empire State gradually flattened its curve, the attention of and concern from lawmakers and public health experts quickly spread out to emerging coronavirus hotspots around the country that soon displaced New York -- states like Florida, California, and Texas. In states like those, cases have spiked to frighteningly high levels and public officials have wrestled with the right mix of mandates to impose to get their outbreaks under control while also dealing with growing exasperation from members of the public who are tired of the rules, tired of the whole thing.

Meanwhile, all of that news coverage and attention has obscured one state that isn't generally mentioned in the top tier of hotspot states in the US when it comes to the most severe coronavirus outbreaks. Using the latest case counts and map data compiled by The New York Times, however, if you wanted to find out where in the country the coronavirus is spreading the fastest, that search would lead you to one particular state in the South: Louisiana.

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