NEW: The U.S. has recorded its highest single-day COVID-19 case total in exactly six months with more than 120,000 new cases reported, according to newly updated CDC data.
Cases are skyrocketing in Louisiana, officials said Friday, with case positivity rates returning to the highs seen last spring.
Over the past two weeks, about 1% of the entire state population has become infected with COVID-19, officials said at a briefing.A paramedic follows strict protocols disrobing from his protective equipment after working with COVID-19 patient Cedric Daniels, 37, of Gonzales, La., at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021.
"We are at the leading edge of the surge case growth per capita and Louisiana continues to be the highest in the country," Gov. John Bel Edwards said."It is because of these grim statistics, coupled with a shortage of nurses and hospital staff that we asked the federal government to send medical strike teams our way," Edwards reported.
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