Just a day after Tesla founder Elon Musk threatened Alameda County officials with picking up and moving his factory to another state after complaining lockdown orders were too strict, California topped 66,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and reached nearly 2,700 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
County health officials throughout California reported about 2,000 new coronavirus cases on Saturday and confirmed that 63 more people have died of the virus, according to data compiled by this news organizations.
California currently has 66,720 cases and 2,690 deaths. That’s about 166 cases and 6.7 deaths per 100,000 residents.
Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Imperial counties continue to see over half of the tat’s coronavirus cases and the majority of deaths. Los Angeles County officials confirmed Saturday that it surpassed 31,000 coronavirus cases and added that 1,512 people have died.
For those that have survived the deadly disease, homecoming may not be what they expected. After 4 weeks on a ventilator, one San Jose mother came home to a shaken family that had lost everything. The Mercury News sat down with one San Jose family reeling from the life-changing effects of the coronavirus.
Death reports in San Jose show that the disease has hit poor, Latino neighborhoods the hardest as more than a third of the county’s first 100 deaths occurred in just four ZIP codes on the city’s East Side. The death rate from COVID-19 in these neighborhoods is four times as high as in the wealthiest ZIP codes.
As the death toll continues to rise, research efforts are laser-focused on finding coronavirus treatments to save the most critically ill.
A new clinical trial at Stanford University aims at finding COVID-19 medicines that can be given almost immediately after infection, a strategy that could ease the misery of the estimated 80 percent of patients who experience mild or moderate symptoms.
