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"ravages" the central valley, how many deaths in the valley? I couldn't find that in the article. Seems like it would be important to mention? Instead the death total given is for the entire state.

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Many central valley counties are completely inundated with cases. I'm currently living in San Joaquin, and we hit 100% ICU capacity and are approaching 100% hospital capacity. I'm worried that this will just increase the amount of deaths across the board because help is now much farther away.

I think a death figure might be underwhelming for some. Looking at deaths and/or cases per-capita might be more telling.

According to the latest stats, neither hospitalizations nor ICUs are at 100%, hospitalizations have remained stable, and 17 of the 94 ICU beds are open.

Yeah, it’s not in great shape, but it’s not being ‘ravaged’.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case...

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