For the COVID-19 Coronavirus the flipping the calendar did little to stop onslaught of numbers.
In all 5,780 were added to the list of new cases from the Louisiana Department of Health.
Accompanying them were additions to the death toll which now stands at 7,537.
10,000 fresh vials of vaccine are set to start distribution to people aged 70 and over on Monday.
The harsh reality of these supposed waning days of the pandemic are tempered with promises from the Biden Administration that vaccine production and distribution will ramp up as a new regime takes over in Washington D.C. and if all goes well, restrictions on personal lives and liberties could be halved by the middle of the year.
But for right now, there is a total of 321,058 cases of Coronavirus identified in Louisiana with 263,712 presumed recovered.