Special Report

This Is the Parish in the Baton Rouge, LA Metro Area With the Most COVID-19

Samuel Stebbins

Published: May 17, 2022 3:45 am

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow.

In the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, located in Louisiana, a total of 207,341 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 24,992 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the area — in line with the national rate of 24,885 cases per 100,000 people.

Even though COVID-19 infections per capita are in line with the national average across Baton Rouge , there are parts of the metro area where this is not the case.

The broader Baton Rouge metro area comprises nine counties or county equivalents, which can include independent cities — and of them, East Feliciana Parish has the most COVID-19 cases per capita. So far, there have been a total of 6,714 confirmed infections in East Feliciana Parish, or 34,433 for every 100,000 people.

Not only does East Feliciana Parish have the most COVID-19 infections per capita in the Baton Rouge 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 872 coronavirus deaths for every 100,000 people in East Feliciana Parish, compared to 323 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 across the entire Baton Rouge metro area.

All COVID-19 data used in this story are current as of May 13, 2022.

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