UPDATED with latest: Friday was by far the deadliest day of the pandemic in California. On Wednesday, California saw a frightening new high of 432 Covid-related deaths.
Thursday’s number dipped slightly to 428. On Friday, the number of lives recorded lost to the virus rocketed to 585. That’s a 37% rise in one day.Some of the deaths were from a data backlog due to an L.A.-area Internet outage and the holidays, but that asterisk has been applicable every day this week.
For comparison, the 7-day average of deaths was 239 on Wednesday.According to its data dashboard, the state saw 47,198 new infections on Friday.
As with Los Angeles County, that number represents a rise from generally much lower daily cases the past two weeks. The fear, of
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