State and county totals come from a continual Times survey of California's 58 county health agencies as well as the three run by cities. State officials acknowledge that their tallies lag behind the updates posted by local agencies throughout the day and do not dispute The Times' method. The Times switched to using this method on March 18, leading to increases over what it had published previously using state data. The tallies here are mostly limited to residents of California, which is the standard method used to count patients by the state’s health authorities. Closures and restrictions are drawn from an ongoing Times survey of county governments.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 05, 2020 05:36 UTC