Meanwhile, as California approaches 600,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the state ordered a private school to close after it welcomed students back Thursday without face masks or social distancing. The school, with nearly 600 students, is now on the state's monitoring list. Ref. USAToday.
More than 94% of California's population to be under the state's most restrictive COVID guidelines; Gov. Newsom is 'sounding the alarm'. Indoor dining, gyms and movie theaters, among other businesses, must either remain closed or shut down in 41 of the state's 58 counties, Newsom said Monday, and health officials are considering a statewide curfew as coronavirus cases surge more dramatically than they did during a summer spike. Cases have doubled across the state in the last 10 days and rose 51.3% in the first week of November. Ref. USAToday.
California lockdown suppressed excess pandemic deaths. Nearly 20,000 more Californians died in the first six months of the pandemic than would have been expected to die in a normal year, with a disproportionate number of those deaths occurring among older adults, black or Latino residents, or those who had not completed high school, according to a new analysis. Source 6c.
California tops 3 million COVID-19 cases. California has become the first state in the nation to record more than 3 million COVID-19 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and the COVID Tracking Project. The number of cases there has tripled in just the past two months. Current data shows 3,005,830 cases and 33,623 deaths resulting from the virus that… Source 5y.