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1 person dies every 6 minutes: How L.A. became the nation's largest coronavirus hot spot
Title (Dublin Core)
1 person dies every 6 minutes: How L.A. became the nation's largest coronavirus hot spot
Description (Dublin Core)
LOS ANGELES — In Los Angeles County, 10 people on average test positive for the coronavirus every minute. Every six minutes, someone dies from Covid-19, according to county public health data.
The startling figures come as Los Angeles became the first county in the nation to record 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.
According to county public health officials, roughly 1,003,923 people in L.A. have been infected with the virus and more than 13,000 people have died. The numbers are equally sobering across the state. California has nearly 2.9 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 31,000 deaths, according to NBC News counts. A more contagious variant of the virus has also been detected in the region.
The startling figures come as Los Angeles became the first county in the nation to record 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.
According to county public health officials, roughly 1,003,923 people in L.A. have been infected with the virus and more than 13,000 people have died. The numbers are equally sobering across the state. California has nearly 2.9 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 31,000 deaths, according to NBC News counts. A more contagious variant of the virus has also been detected in the region.
Date (Dublin Core)
January 14, 2021
Creator (Dublin Core)
Alicia Victoria Lozano
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Dana Bell
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Article
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Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Health & Wellness
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Cities & Suburbs
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Los Angeles
California
death
death rate
epidemiologist
surge
case
crowding
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Deathways
Los Angeles
death
1 million confirmed cases
cases
pandemic
California
variant
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Deathways
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/04/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/04/2021
08/02/2022
09/09/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
01/14/2021
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This item was submitted on April 4, 2021 by Dana Bell using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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