The largest county in the United States is on the brink of a stay-home order after a coronavirus surge surpassed a level set by Los Angeles County public health officials to trigger such an action. A swell of new patients Monday put the county over an average of 4,500 patients per day. A stay-home order would be the first such action since mid-March, when governor Gavin Newsom followed several counties and issued a statewide order that closed schools and most shops. In Los Angeles, the county of 10 million residents has had a disproportionately large share of the state’s patients and deaths. Although it accounts for a quarter of the state’s 40 million residents, it has about a third of the cases and more than a third of the deaths.-AP

Source: The Standard November 24, 2020 07:41 UTC