Projections show California COVID-19 cases and deaths rising more than expected

[rangerrebew]

 Projections show California COVID-19 cases and deaths rising more than expected

Protesters in Huntington Beach call for lifting virus restrictions.
Protesters call for opening churches and lifting remaining virus restrictions in California during a protest Saturday in Huntington Beach.
 
By Alex Wigglesworth, Laura King
May 10, 2020
12:07 PM
UPDATED 5:12 PM

California is one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths are rising faster than researchers expected, according to the latest calculations in a widely relied-upon model of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the institute’s latest projections suggested the nationwide fatality count would reach 137,000 by Aug. 4. It stands now at nearly 80,000.

The picture is mixed in some of the country’s most populous states, he said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-10/california-coronavirus-cases-deaths-rising-more-than-expected

[rangerrebew]

Perhaps the deaths are being honestly reported.

[PeteS in CA]

I've been watching this stats page since CA was #4 in total number of cases in the US, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ . CA slipped some time ago to #5, and while cases/1M and deaths/1M will never go down, CA's cases/1M and deaths/1M are both in the bottom half among US states. CA's /1M rates are both better than GA's and FL's, and I am not criticizing those two states. OTOH, the cases and deaths rates for NY, NJ, and MA are ~10X CA's rate. Even CA's nursing homes patient deaths as a % of total deaths is a little below the national average.

I think the liar here is the LAT's writer. Unsurprisingly.