179 Cases Total In Malibu and SM Mtns, as State Data SNAFU Continues

Malibu 86.

Santa Monica Mountains … 93 confirmed COVID cases.

Maybe.

The state Director of Public Health resigned suddenly yesterday.

As the California COVID 19 case count remains a giant set of question marks.

How many COVID cases have been positive?

How can conyract tracing be undertaken successfully if the contact tracers do not get accurate data???

Dr. Sonia Angell, California’s public health officer and one of the top officials formulating the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, abruptly announced her resignation Sunday night.

The announcement comes less than a week after state officials revealed that a problem with a computer system had resulted in an undercounting of new coronavirus cases since July 25.

Gov. Gavin Newsom learned of the problem only after he had touted a sharp drop in new cases as a sign for cautious optimism during a news conference Aug. 3, officials said.

In Los Angeles County yesterday … public health officials reported 1,789 new cases.

That is very low … but it was a weekend.

Hospitalizations have dropped about 25 percent.

And officials said the numbers still did not include a pending backlog of lab reports that could cause a spike in new cases.

Only 10 related deaths … also very low … and those numbers are not affected by the snafu in the state reporting system.

But young adults continue to account for an outsize share of the new cases, officials said.

Of the infections recorded Sunday, 35% were among residents 30 to 49, and 69% were among residents under 50, the Department of Public Health said in a news release.