The results from the last 24-hour reporting period for new coronavirus cases and deaths across the state on Friday showed a slight reduction from Thursday’s record-high numbers.
Three hundred more Californians died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, second only to the 379 the day before.
This brings the state’s total deaths to just over 22,000.
Friday’s numbers showed over 41,000 new cases, a devastatingly large number although slightly better than the 52,000 the previous day. The 14-day positivity rate is no 12% across the state.
UCSF Epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford told KCBS Radio's Stan Bunger that the shelter-in-place orders need to "click in for us, to get this back under control."
These slight reductions may continue as we approach the two-week mark from when much of the Bay Area preemptively adopted the state’s stricter shelter-in-place orders, and as vaccines begin to roll out.
Dr. Rutherford said "these two vaccines, the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, are miraculous in their efficacy." He expected we should start to see the impact of vaccine immunity in the community as we move into the winter.
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