And he applauded “the president and others” for wearing a mask — what the governor has repeatedly described as the most effective “non-pharmaceutical” intervention to help prevent the spread of the virus.
[Look back at early hypotheses about why the virus affected California and New York so differently.]
While California has overtaken New York in reported cases, it’s tough to know which state has actually had more total infections. Both had significant outbreaks very early on, when testing was severely limited, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that huge numbers of infections went undetected, dwarfing the number of known cases.
For example, in a recent study of antibody prevalence, the C.D.C. found evidence that as many as 2.8 million people in the New York City area had been infected by May 6 — 10 times the number of cases reported by then. The figure for San Francisco in late April was nine times.
New York remains by far the hardest-hit state by another measure: It has recorded 32,218 deaths related to Covid-19, according to a Times database — more than the next three states (New Jersey, Massachusetts and California) combined.
As of Wednesday, California had recorded 7,893 deaths.
Still, Mr. Newsom cautioned against becoming inured to the deaths of about 90 people per day, on average over the past week.
“We should be very sober about the loss,” he said.
[See The Times’s interactive look at the expansion of testing. It’s not what’s driving rising case counts.]
Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/california-coronavirus-new-york-cases.html
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