“I again want to sound an alarm that we’ve been sounding for the last month,” said Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. “We’re on a very dangerous track to seeing unprecedented and catastrophic suffering and death,” she warned. “I’m making a request to everyone to stay home.”Ferrer reported a record number of 13,815 new coronavirus cases on Friday.
It was up from the previous high, which was on Thursday. What’s more, even as the number of tests delivered rises, the daily test positivity rate has jumped to 14.4%.The number of people hospitalized in the county rose to 3,624, said Ferrer.
But, she warned of much greater numbers to come. Looking at the current number of cases, Ferrer said it’s predictable that in two weeks, over
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