Pandemic recap
Three years after being shut down, people still are getting sick from COVID-19, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who tested positive this week.
California’s numbers
Data as of March 1 from the CDC.
Cases
12,101,930 total
30,628 cases per 100K
26,162 new cases in the past week
Deaths
100,426 total (0.8% of cases)
239 in the past week
254 deaths per 100K
Over the past three years, California has had drought, massive fires, the highest gas prices in its history, raging winter storms and like the rest of the world, the coronavirus pandemic.
California led the nation in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
On the bright, side the state’s death rate per 100,000 (254) is lower than most of the other highly-populated states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The numbers are becoming politicized as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office released a statement Feb. 28, 2023, “California’s death rate is the lowest amongst large states. If California had Texas’ death rate, 27,000 more people would have died here. If California had Florida’s rate, that figure jumps to approximately 56,000 more deaths.”
California’s death rate is about the same as Mexico, Spain and France, but not as low as Panama, Germany and Ecuador, which is close to 200 per 100,000.
Vietnam had about as many cases as California and its death rate is 44.37 per 100,000 people.
The governor’s note touches on economics coming out of the pandemic saying, “Since February 2021, California has created 1,628,300 new jobs – over 16% of the nation’s jobs, by far more than any other state. By comparison, Texas created 1,133,200 jobs (11.3% of the nation’s) and Florida created 787,600 jobs (7.9% of the nation’s) in that same time frame.”
The statement does not mention California’s 40 million population is larger than Texas by 10 million people and nearly twice as many as Florida’s 22 million people.
California’s unemployment rate was higher during the pandemic as…
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