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Pelican State

noun

  1. Louisiana (used as a nickname).


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After his visit to Baton Rouge — and later, New Orleans — Barnes reflected on The Pelican State, a place that he said "felt like a vacation" every day.

The number of hospitalizations among the Pelican State’s 4.6 million residents concerns authorities, as it does in New York and other hard-hit states.

COVID-19 has moved quickly across Louisiana, killing hundreds and infecting thousands of all ages and walks of life in the Pelican State.

By comparison, California, which has almost 10 times the population of the Pelican State, has attributed 200 deaths to the coronavirus.

But by Sunday afternoon cases were confirmed in 59 of the Pelican State’s 64 parishes, the LDH said.

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