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Published in: Domestic Policy, Healthcare
https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/04/california-coronavirus-covid-patient-hospitalization-data-icu/
Hospitalizations for covid are trending down after peaking in July.
The link above does a nice job of showing hospitalization/icu trends for the state and each county of the state.
The rate of transmission in Los Angeles county is now 0.84.
I don’t trust the computation of LA county public health but it’s been under 1 for a few days now, the longest consecutive streak since the county reported on this number daily starting in April or May