California passes New York for most COVID-19 deaths

California overtook New York on Tuesday in overall deaths from COVID-19 and regained the unpleasant title 11 months after the first American to die from the coronavirus was discovered in the Golden State.

According to data compiled by this news organization, the death toll rose by another 513 on Tuesday to 44,996 since the start of the pandemic almost a year ago. Although the devastating wave of New York has not been repeated anywhere else in the country this past spring, California, a state with twice the population of New York and ten million more people than any other state, had the deadliest period of the pandemic during the recorded two years ago. months, reporting deaths at New York pace over the past week.

However, even deaths, which are considered to be the last indication of an outbreak, have begun to hit a downturn, which is now about a month removed from the first signs of declining cases and hospitalizations. California’s curve followed a similar trajectory as the country, which also began to decline with the number of new cases and deaths, as well as active hospitalizations.

In California, the average number of new cases continued to fall Tuesday, after 10,913 were reported in the state. Over the past week, California has reduced about 12,320 times a day over the past week, a decrease of 47%, but infections are still higher than any point before the winter wave. The number of California residents hospitalized with COVID-19 has dropped 35% in the past two weeks to 11,198, from Monday, the lowest point in more than two months, but still well above any point before Thanksgiving.

But the death toll in California has risen by more than 3,100 in the past week – an average of 445 a day – nearly 20% less than two weeks ago, but still triples the seven-day period outside this winter. Two out of every five Californians killed in the entire pandemic have died since the calendar to 2021. Since the start of the new year, California has recorded more than 18,500 deaths from COVID-19, compared to just over 7,200 in New York, more than 12,000 in Texas and about 6,500 in Florida – the three states with the second most cumulative death toll (and population).

During April, the deadliest month of the pandemic in New York, nearly 21,300 victims were recorded, more than the nearly 15,000 lives lost in California last month, with about half the population.

On a per capita basis, California ranks among all three of its fellow states, including a death toll in the course of the pandemic, less than half that of New York, which is behind only neighboring New Jersey in lives per capita. capita is lost. .

As cases fell rapidly in California, its position in the national rankings of states’ infection rates also declined. According to the New York Times, California had about 31.2 daily cases per 100,000 residents in the past week. However, according to the COVID detection project, there are only six other countries still treating a larger proportion of their residents for hospitals. no one has a higher total number of active hospitalizations.

In the Bay, cases have dropped drastically enough that some local provinces are starting to sniff out advanced reopening levels.

There was no movement locally in the weekly update offered on Tuesday, but the new state data showed that a number of provinces have closed to possibly move to the red reopening, which has an adjusted rate of 7 / 100K or lower and requires a positivity. rate below 8%.