Don’t trick the community to even higher levels of spread,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, medical epidemiologist and infectious disease expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. More than 30,200 coronavirus cases were reported for the seven-day period that ended Thursday, a 19% jump from the previous week, a Los Angeles Times analysis found. California let its collective guard down around Memorial Day, and for weeks paid the price as infections, hospitalizations and deaths surged, making the summer the state’s deadliest COVID-19 season. AdvertisementThe county reported 1,745 new COVID-19 cases Thursday, the highest one-day increase not connected to a reporting backlog since August. That’s what makes the conga line of late-in-the-year holidays so troubling from a public health perspective.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 31, 2020 12:56 UTC