“It’s a really big disaster if people come back and then just go straight back to work,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Thursday. L.A. County averaged nearly 15,000 new coronavirus cases a day over the weekly period that ended Tuesday; as of Sunday night, the average was about 14,000 cases a day. In L.A. County, the number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU increased by about 19% in the last week; the comparable figure the week before was 33%. AdvertisementCumulatively, California has reported 2.13 million coronavirus cases and 24,288 deaths, according to an independent county-by-county tally conducted by The Times. On a per capita basis, over the most recent two-week period, California ranks second for the most number of coronavirus cases reported per 100,000 residents, just below Tennessee.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 28, 2020 18:13 UTC