In a month of unfortunate COVID-19 records, California has set another.
On Thursday, the state’s Department of Public Health reported 220 deaths related to COVID-19 complications, adding to the steadily increasing total of 20,463 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
That’s the highest number of deaths in a single day yet.
The previous high was 291 reported on July 31, the first of four times state officials have reported over 200 deaths in one day.
Two of those four times have now happened in the last seven days.
The state Wednesday reported a single day high in cases, the second time over 30,000 new coronavirus infections have been identified.
The first time was last Saturday.
Officials said they were notified of 29,677 new coronavirus cases Wednesday.
The increasingly common high totals in deaths and new cases come at a time that ICU capacity across California appears to be dwindling as projected. In new figures released Thursday, the ICU bed capacity in the state’s San Joaquin Valley region was at a shockingly-low 1.9%.
Along with Greater Sacramento and Southern California, it’s one of three under the strict stay-at-home order issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week.
The Bay Area’s ICU capacity took a tumble Thursday, dipping to 17.8%.
In Northern California, capacity came in at 30.3%.
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