As the delta variant continues to surge, COVID-19 continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 40,330,400 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day.
In the Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area, located in Louisiana, a total of 66,841 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date. Adjusted for population, there have been 15,145 reported infections for every 100,000 people in the area — above the national rate of 12,327 cases per 100,000 people.
The higher than average per capita COVID-19 infection rate across Shreveport-Bossier City is being driven by a high concentration of the virus in one area in particular.
The broader Shreveport metro area comprises four counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, De Soto Parish has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 4,386 infections in De Soto Parish, or 16,116 for every 100,000 people.
Not only does De Soto Parish have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Shreveport area, it also has more deaths attributable to the virus per capita than the metro area as a whole. There have been a total of 367 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in De Soto Parish, compared to 328 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Shreveport-Bossier City metro area.
All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of Sept. 10, 2021.
| Rank | Geography | COVID cases per 100,000 people | Total cases | Deaths per 100,000 people | Total deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | De Soto Parish, LA | 16,116 | 4,386 | 367 | 100 |
| 2 | Bossier Parish, LA | 15,875 | 20,023 | 281 | 354 |
| 3 | Webster Parish, LA | 15,051 | 5,965 | 333 | 132 |
| 4 | Caddo Parish, LA | 14,683 | 36,467 | 347 | 862 |
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