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Ten of the first 20 confirmed COVID-19 infections in the United States were detected in California, and the first infection was confirmed on January 26, 2020. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] All of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China, as testing was restricted to this group, but there were some other people infected by ...
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas . [ 3 ]
On February 6, 57-year-old Patricia Dowd of San Jose, California became the first COVID-19 death in the United States discovered by April 2020. She died at home without any known recent foreign travel, after being unusually sick from flu in late January, then recovering, remote working , and suddenly dying on February 6.
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California's FLiRT-fueled COVID surge is continuing to spawn infections at a dizzying rate, with coronavirus levels in wastewater reaching some of the highest levels seen since 2022.
It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [44] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [45] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose, [46] and life expectancy fell. [47]
Coronavirus infections have increased 63% statewide, bringing the case rate to 231 for every 100,000 California residents. Hospitalization rates are rising but remain low.