The COVID stats in California including deaths are the worse levels ever.... including San Diego County. It's good to see the governor taking action to prevent it from getting worse.
California has its most coronavirus deaths in a single day as cases, hospitalizations continue to surge
https://www.latimes.com/california/...ronavirus-deaths-cases-hospitalizations-surge
More Californians died of COVID-19 on Tuesday than any other day, the latest milestone in an accelerating pandemic that is infecting and hospitalizing residents at levels far eclipsing any seen before.
Tuesday’s death toll, 219, edged out the previous single-day high of 214, which was recorded July 31, according to data compiled by The Times.
The latest figure may be a harbinger of higher death tolls. Until this past week, California had topped 200 daily coronavirus-related deaths only two times. That number has been exceeded twice in the last five days.
The seven-day fatality average, 135 Californians a day over the last week, is also at a level not seen since the darkest days of the state’s summertime surge.
A month ago, the state was averaging about 44 daily deaths.
Nearly 1,400 Californians have died of COVID-19 in the last 14 days. Since the pandemic began, the disease has killed more than 20,300 statewide.
The death toll has been highest in Los Angeles, the state’s most populous county. More than 8,000 Angelenos have died of COVID-19 — a fact that nearly brought Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer to tears during a briefing Wednesday.
“Over 8,000 people who were beloved members of their families are not coming back,” she said, her voice choking. “And their deaths are an incalculable loss to their friends and their family, as well as our community.”
The sharp spike in fatalities seen over the last few weeks is the realization of what public health officials have long feared — that a massive surge of new coronavirus cases would not only swamp the state’s hospitals with patients but also swell the number of residents dying of the disease.
“As cases have continued to increase the past few weeks, we will bear witness to a significant rise in the number of people who are dying,” Ferrer said.
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