By Erik Pedersen Managing Editor Nine people have died of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County in the past 24 hours, local officials said today.
That is the most for a single day in the region and brings the death toll to 21. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the county’s director of Public Health, also said that 421 new cases were reported since Wednesday’s update. “We have to assume that the spread of COVID-19 is throughout Los Angeles County,” Ferrer said, adding that if the pace continues, “there could be over a million people infected” in the region.
Of those patients, some 200,000 of those would require hospitalization, she said. During today’s update that was livestreamed on Facebook, Ferrer said the total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in
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