On the same day that California reported by far its highest number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said that L.A.
had breached its own grim threshold. On Wednesday, the county crossed 10,000 lives lost to Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.Specifically, Los Angeles County recorded 274 deaths from the virus in the previous 24 hours for a total of 10,056.The 14-day average number of daily deaths for the virus according to Ferrer was about 150.
That’s “about equal to the number of deaths from all other causes, which is about 170,” said Ferrer.What’s more, “The impact of this current surge is overwhelming our hospitals and and it is increasing deaths.” So it’s not
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