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Intensive care unit bed capacity continues to diminish quickly in Los Angeles County, even as the county continues to reach new daily highs in coronavirus infections. The new one-day case total for Thursday stands at a staggering 12,741, while ICU availability fell to 7.7 percent — nearly 50 percent below the threshold set by California’s statewide Department of Public Health that led to the current stay-at-home order and regional shutdown of things like on-site outdoor dining.
Per the
Los Angeles Times, LA County is seeing double the number of “daily coronavirus cases than it saw on Nov. 30, and quadruple its daily coronavirus cases since mid-November. Cumulatively, L.A. County has tallied 488,519 coronavirus cases and 8,151 COVID-19 deaths.”