“In two weeks, we can end this pandemic in the United States of America,” said an upbeat Governor Gavin Newsom at a news conference on Monday.
That California is “roaring back” has become Newsom’s mantra as he announces programs funded by the state’s record budget surplus.
Ironically, nowhere was that assertion more true on Monday than in the state’s skyrocketing Covid-19 numbers.The state has stopped announcing Covid numbers on the weekends, instead issuing one big number on Monday.
Today, that three-day total was 14,097, which breaks down to an average of 4,667 new cases per day. The last time daily case numbers were that high in the state was February 22 of this year during the winter surge.
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