Louisiana reported 2,120 additional cases today with 6.4% of tests positive (PCR only).
Orleans Parish reported 134 additional cases today with 1.5% of tests positive.
Definite plateau in Orleans PCR testing, maybe starting to see it statewide but too early to say for sure.
Orleans Parish reported 2 new deaths after going 11 straight days without a new death.
Deaths statewide are starting to surge again.
The number of people in the hospital jumped by 40 today. Not good obviously but it's "only" up 20% week on week suggesting new hospitalizations are beginning to slow.
You have to squint a bit, but we're seeing evidence that the growth of new infections may be starting to slow. Not great but better than the alternative.
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Louisiana reported 1,023 additional cases today with 7.3% of tests (PCR only) positive.
Orleans Parish reported 64 additional cases today with 3.6% of tests positive.
May be more evidence of a plateau coming though still too early to tell for sure.
Decent evidence of a plateau developing a little more than a week ago in the cases by date of test data.
If we have a bad backlog right now that might be skewing things though.
Anyhow, the totality of data suggests we are likely at a plateau right now though obviously there's no guarantee that we don't either stay there or go down.
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the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill
waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and