As of Wednesday, amid a continuing surge, California had reported just over 993,000 total coronavirus cases, according to the Los Angeles Times’ tracker. Hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators of coronavirus spread and can reflect exposure to the virus that occurred weeks earlier. Starting in late July, California recorded 12 consecutive weeks of declining hospitalizations related to coronavirus infections. Health officials there reported 2,152 new coronavirus cases Wednesday — the sixth time in the last week that the county’s daily total has exceeded 2,000. The U.S. as a whole hit a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations Tuesday and surpassed 1-million new confirmed coronavirus cases in just the first 10 days of November.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 11, 2020 20:23 UTC