California saw a massive jump in its daily report of positive cases on Monday, adding 6,219 new cases, according to Johns Hopkins data. This new figure shattered its previous single-day record of 4,084 new confirmed cases from last Thursday, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Monday’s number reported by county health departments across the state includes some caveats as some counties report multiple-day totals after not updating their case counts over the weekend.
As of June 22, California is seeing a seven-day average of nearly 4,148 daily new cases, according to Johns Hopkins data. This number has risen by more than 32% since one week ago. While Monday’s figure is a big uptick, it does not change the overall trend line as the seven-day average of daily new cases has already been on the rise for the past two weeks.
“The problem is with exponential growth everything looks sort of OK until all of a sudden it doesn’t,” Gottlieb said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
Meanwhile, 16 states and Washington, D.C., reported declines in cases including, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Health officials have cited that it can take anywhere from five to 12 days for people to show symptoms from the coronavirus, which could delay reporting. Each local state health department has its own methodologies for counting case numbers, causing the numbers to fluctuate based on the level of testing conducted.
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