5. Louisiana
Louisiana was one of the most recent additions to Covid Act Now’s “critical” list, due in large part to a limited number of contact tracers: the state has just seven percent of the amount needed to monitor all new coronavirus infections within 48 hours. But Louisiana also has a high infection rate of 1.29, which means that the coronavirus virus spreads rapidly in this state — at the end of last month, it was one of the states where new cases doubled in one week. As of July 13, there were 78,230 cases of COVID in Louisiana and over 3,415 deaths.
