COVID-19 Labor Day Bulge Arriving – Death Count In California Significantly Underestimated
Written by 991KBU on September 22, 2020
The Labor Day COVID-19 spike is beginning to show.
A major heat wave sent millions to the beaches …. 1 point 7 million people to Malibu alone over the Labor Day weekend.
And now .… the number of positive cases appears to be trending upward.
A sharp uptick is reported in the 7-day test trend … says Doctor Barbara Ferrer at L A County Public health.
“Four days of data last week that showed increases … a troubling trend.”
Los Angeles County’S where the COVID-19 positivity rate has stayed too high for any businesses to reopen for indoor operations.
It’s the biggest surge in the aftermath of the Fourth of July.
Still 101 cases of coronavirus in Malibu … and 113 in the county area of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Statewide … the percentage of Californians who tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week dipped below 3% for the first time
Hospitals in California are treating the fewest patients with the virus since April, and admissions to the state’s intensive care units have been dropping steadily, too.
But the good news is tempered with caution: Those fires, coupled with heat waves and toxic air quality, led to a decline in testing.
And one thing is certain … the official COVID-19 death toll is an undercount.
Last spring … the official death count in California from the disease was about 92 hundred.
But the number of people who died from any cause … over the same period … was up 13 percent from the previous year.
There was a big shortage of COVID tests … a lot of people who died were suspected but not confirmed COVID patients when they died.
Plus … the disease has hit poor people and people of color much harder than the white poipualtun … and the minorities had less access to insurance and testing.
Add it up … about 14 thousand 200 Californians probably were killed by COVID by July.
These numbers were discounted by the Malibu city council’s two votes against fines for mandatory mask wearing.
Skylar Peak and Rick Mullen both said they agreed with Hamish Patterson … who argued against wearing masks.
Patterson … who has revealed no scientific training .. said the actual death toll from COVID 19 is much lower than officially reported …. because most of the dead people also had underlying conditions.
Malibu’s city council became one of the only ones in the region to … in effect .. allow violators of the mask ban to go unpunished.
The numbers come from on California Healthline, and Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service.https://www.kqed.org/science/1969718/californias-deadly-spring-suggests-covid-19-deaths-are-undercounted.
