When Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards issued his Stay at Home order, he presented three dramatic graphics illustrating the impact of the state’s coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak.

He said it was this information that prompted his shelter in place order.

Here are the three charts, with his comments below each one.

“The State of Louisiana currently has the nation’s third-highest number of cases per capita,” the governor said. “We are behind New York State, Washington State and we are ahead of New Jersey. This is obviously concerning to me because health care infrastructure is sized to meet the population. So, it’s not the raw number of cases in Louisiana that are most concerning to me it’s that per capita case load.”

“A study out of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette,” Gov. Edwards said. “We have the fastest growth rate in confirmed cases in the world over the first 13 days right here in Louisiana.”

“When we talk about ‘flattening the curve,’ this is what we’re talking about,” the governor explained. “Louisiana is depicted in purple. We don’t have as much time under our belt since the spread started so our line doesn’t continue out for as many days but you can see the trajectory we’re on. It’s not much different than Spain or Italy. It’s not much different than South Korea. But if you’ll look, South Korea started to bend the curve right in this point. That’s about seven days from now. So if we want to flatten the curve, we have to take more aggressive mitigation measures right now and limit our social contact.”

The Stay at Home order is set to expire at the end of the night on Sunday, April 12. The Governor will re-evaluate the need for the statewide Stay at Home order and other mitigation measures currently in place to determine if they need to be extended beyond April 12.