California sees record-breaking number of COVID-19 deaths
by Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money, Los Angeles Times
Jan 22, 2021
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES â California is continuing to see record-breaking deaths from COVID-19, a lagging indicator of the winter surge that is coming even as overall coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have flattened and started to slightly decline.
The state broke the record Thursday for most COVID-19 deaths in a single day: 736, surpassing the mark set on Jan. 15, when 700 deaths were reported. California is still averaging about 500 deaths a day over the past week, one of the worst such figures of the pandemic, but
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