“There is some hope,” said California’s Director of Health and Human Services, Dr. Mark Ghaly during his Tuesday Covid-19 briefing. “There is some reduction in numbers.”Ghaly’s statement was accurate with respect to daily infections.
He reported 36,487 new cases on Tuesday. that’s down from nearly 40,000 the day before and 49,000 the day before that.The number of Covid-infected patients hospitalized in the state over the past 24 hours was slightly down from last week’s record to 21,747.
The number of available Covid-ready ICU beds shrank slightly to 1,229. That’s for a population of 40 million.Most critically, however, there were 548 new pandemic-related deaths reported in the state on Tuesday.
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