Cases are rising here. But death rates and hospitalizations seem to be holding steady, which is why this isn’t the same intensity of other hot spots. There is a much bigger population here than other states so the case numbers still aren’t that high per capita and there is a lot of capacity.
Still, it’s worrying. The Governor has mandated mask wearing in public and I can report that I’ve seen huge improvement in that in the last few days in my neighborhood in Santa Monica, I’m happy to say. For a while there it was pretty obvious that a whole lot of people here in LA thought the pandemic was over and had gone back to normal. Hopefully, they have sobered up.
Anyway, here are some charts from the LA Times which show what’s going on here:
