COVID-19 Snapshots

sent every week! September 3, 2020- Using data from the COVID-19 Tracking Project we can see how Louisiana has fared compared to our neighbors. While COVID-19 hit Louisiana hard early on, recently we are doing better than our neighboring states. Even after adjusting for population, Louisiana has more cumulative deaths and cases than Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas. Sign up for emails read it Here

PAR RELEASES RESEARCH BRIEF Disparities Mark COVID-19 Impact New data illuminate the imbalance in Louisiana. PAR’s analysis provides perspectives about the impact on a regional basis and contains newly released information about the number of Blacks and Whites contracting the disease. READ HERE July 24,, 2020

New Commentary: Crisis Management Federal largesse and leadership cooperation got the new Legislature through its first budget crisis. Now on to the next one. READ HERE July 3, 2020 Two shortened legislative sessions later, what can we say happened? In this commentary, let’s follow the money. Spending is the most important job of the Legislature. So, what exactly did they do?

Decision Point Read More Louisiana shows favorable trendlines for COVID-19 but

much data still concealed or inconsistent. NEW COMMENTARY Several key trendlines tracking COVID-19’s impact in Louisiana are

showing favorable directions, just as the state is reaching the next

decision point about whether to reopen social interactions and

business operations further.

Research Brief: Tracking COVID-19 Benchmarks A Louisiana citizen's tool for marking progress and regression. READ HERE Based on publicly available data, PAR’s statewide and regional 14-day trendlines are similar to the

models used by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) to determine the spread of the disease.

The LDH trend-lines form a basis for the Governor’s decisions about reopening the state and lifting

the stay-at-home order.