California reported 186 deaths from COVID-19 on Friday, the fourth-deadliest day on record, the same day officials announced that Govin Newsom had ordered an investigation into errors that led to a backlog of up to 300,000 lab records in the state. the coronavirus tracking system.
The state came in Friday with a seven-day average of 145 daily deaths. Since July 29, the state has reported the four deadliest days of the pandemic, including 215 deaths on July 31 and 197 deaths on August 4. The 186 deaths Friday bring the state to a total of 10,210 dead COVID-19.
California counties also reported 7,944 new cases for a total of 549,153 cases, although problems with the state reporting system mean that this is an underreporting of daily positive cases.
The state on Thursday crossed the 10,000 death mark, likely making the virus the seventh leading cause of death in the state, ahead of diabetes, flu plus pneumonia and hypertension, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Mortality data. Prevention.
Los Angeles County reported the most COVID 19 deaths, 49, followed by Riverside County with 29 deaths and San Joaquin County with 19 deaths.
Fresno, Stanislaus and Kern counties followed with the most recent deaths, as the virus moved to the more rural parts of the state, where it affected most of the state’s agricultural labor force for the most part.
Residents of Latinx make up about 36.3 percent of the 18 and older population in California and 46.8 percent of deaths in that age category. Black residents make up 6.1 percent of 18-year-old Californians and 8.4 percent of the deaths. Only one person under 18 has died from COVID-19 in the state.
On Thursday, the state also reported a 2.8 percent reduction in the number of hospitalized patients with confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19, to 7,277 patients. There was also a 2.4 percent decrease in the number of patients in intensive care units with confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19, to 1,978.
Alameda and Santa Clara counties had both admitted 175 patients to hospital with COVID-19, followed by 98 in Contra Costa County, 85 in San Francisco and 45 in San Mateo County.
