Official death toll in Louisiana in aftermath of Katrina as of Sept. 16, 2005 : 579

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By contrast, the Mississippi fatality count appears to have reached a plateau, remaining at 218 all week, although the authorities in Jackson County on the coast said an additional body had been recovered on Friday.

The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina was 812 in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, a number still much lower than the projections of thousands of deaths made by some officials at the height of the crisis.