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Coronavirus: California's recovery continues to outpace nation

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By | | Bay Area News GroupAfter weeks of consistent improvement, cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. rebounded slightly to begin this week. In California, however, the decline in cases has continued unabated.On Tuesday, county health departments across California combined to report 6,247 new cases of COVID-19, according to . While that doesn’t quite match the state’s recent , it did lower California’s daily average to about 5,815 cases per day over the past week, its lowest point since the first week of November and 87% below its peak last month.Nationwide the past two days, the country has reported small week-over-week increases in cases, according to data collected by the New York Times. Cases have still declined about 74% from an all-time high last month and 37% in the past two weeks, to an average of about 68,000 per day, but for the first time since mid-January, the nation’s recovery from its winter wave appears to have at least briefly stalled. California recorded a 52% decline in cases over the past two weeks, outpacing the nation as well as its own previous two-week period.Throughout the winter, California consistently topped the list of states with the worst current per-capita infection rates. As the nation’s most populous state, it already has recorded more overall cases and fatalities than any other state. Now, though, California’s per-capita rate over the past week ranks below 30 other states, at just under 15 daily cases per 100,000 residents.The Bay Area has also cut its cases in half over the past two weeks, and on Tuesday, two of its counties were among the first to move out of the most restrictive purple reopening tier. San Mateo and Marin counties , along with Yolo, Humboldt and Shasta counties. San Francisco, Santa Clara and Napa counties also met the threshold, which requires an adjusted case rate of 7 or lower per 100,000 residents, but must do so for another week to earn the less restrictive guidelines.Adjusted case rates, positivity rates in Bay Area counties, as of Tuesday:Despite the improvements, coronavirus deaths in California are still coming by the hundreds each day.California’s cumulative death toll is closing in on 50,000, including an average of approximately 333 per day over the past week — and 275 on Tuesday, according to data compiled by this news organization. Since the start of December, its share of the national death toll, , has grown from 7% to 10%, though that remains lower than its some 12% of the U.S. population.With more than 2,300 deaths over the past week, California has still recorded more than twice as many recent fatalities as any other state; only Texas and Florida reported 1,000 or more deaths in that time. On a per-capita basis, however, 30 states have lost a larger proportion of their populations over the course of the pandemic, and seven have recorded more deaths per-capita over the past week.In Los Angeles County, the overall death toll surpassed 20,000 on Tuesday, and the vast majority of the fatalities continue to come in Southern California. With 153 fatalities Tuesday, Los Angeles County reported more new deaths than the combined total of all the other counties in California. Since the onset of the pandemic, about 40% of the Californians who have died from COVID-19 lived in Los Angeles County, well above its 25% share of the state’s population.Only one county outside of Southern California posted a double-digit death toll Tuesday.Following LA County were Riverside County, with 31 deaths; San Diego County, with 29 deaths; San Bernardino County, with 14 deaths; and Ventura County, with 11 deaths.In the Bay Area, Santa Clara County also added 11 to its death toll, which grew to 1,747, the largest in the region but behind five others in Southern California. Elsewhere in the region, Marin and Santa Cruz were the only other counties to report new deaths Tuesday, with two apiece.We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.Get Morning Report and other email newslettersFollow UsMost PopularClose

By | | Bay Area News GroupAfter weeks of consistent improvement, cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. rebounded slightly to begin this week. In California, however, the decline in cases has continued unabated.On Tuesday, county health departments across California combined to report 6,247 new cases of COVID-19, according to . While that doesn’t quite match the state’s recent , it did lower California’s daily average to about 5,815 cases per day over the past week, its lowest point since the first week of November and 87% below its peak last month.Nationwide the past two days, the country has...

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