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Intensive care unit beds across Southern California are plummeting to critical levels, with capacity falling to 1% in Ventura County and 0% in Riverside County while Los Angeles County home to 10 million people had fewer than 100 beds available.
But the worst of the surge is still to come, experts say. L.A. County has more than 4,400 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and officials said that number could rise to 5,000 by the weekend.
The shortages come as the coronavirus continues to rage across the state. A Los Angeles Times county-by-county tally showed an unprecedented 42,129 cases reported Monday. That number breaks the single-day record set Dec. 8, when 35,400 coronavirus cases were recorded.
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An alarming surge in new COVID-19 cases 2,561 new infections confirmed over the weekend prompted Ventura County officials on Monday to plead for the community s help during a news conference. We are on a surge that makes the previous surge we saw look small, said Dr. Robert Levin, the county s public health officer, during the live-streamed event.
Just three weeks ago, Levin noted, 610 new cases were reported on Monday, when the update includes weekend data collected Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The figure Levin announced at Monday s news conference also dwarfs the record set a week earlier, when the Monday report totaled 1,289 confirmed coronavirus infections over the weekend. During the height of the prior surge in July and early August, Monday reports peaked in the 500s, never breaking the 600 mark.