An estimated one in 80 people in L.A. County are now contagious with the virus; that’s far worse than in late September, when scientists calculated that one in 880 county residents were infectious. Among Latino residents over the past four weeks, for example, the death rate has jumped from 1.4 daily deaths per 100,000 Latino residents to 4.5 daily deaths. Among Black residents, the death rate has jumped from less than one death per 100,000 Black residents to more than three deaths per 100,000. And among Asian residents, the death rate has risen from 0.5 deaths per 100,000 Asian residents to three deaths per 100,000. That’s because people living in the most impoverished areas of L.A. County are also more likely to die from COVID-19.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 18, 2020 16:25 UTC