California Covid-19 Update: ICU Bed Availability Statewide Drops To Just 2%

Dr. Dre, 55, is reportedly in the hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced what should have been good news: The state’s number of new daily cases dropped to 29,633. That’s down more than 20,000 since the state hit its all-time high of 53,711 on December 15 and substantially lower than the 7-day average of about 37,000.

UPDATED with latest: Friday was by far the deadliest day of the pandemic in California. On Wednesday, California saw a frightening new high of 432 Covid-related deaths. Thursday’s number dipped slightly to 428. On Friday, the number of lives recorded lost to the virus rocketed to 585. That’s a 37% rise in one day.

On Wednesday, at the top of a conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed that the new, reportedly more infectious strain of Covid-19 first identified in the U.K. had been found in CA, specifically Southern California.

California Covid-19 Update: Governor Gavin Newsom announced a phased reopening plan for the state’s schools.

Lana Del Rey is sporting a sling on her arm after suffering a nasty fracture while ice skating. The Video Games star has been spotted wearing the light grey sling and soft black cast around California and, taking to social media, she told fans she sustained the injury while ice skating.

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan are currently spending the holiday season quietly in California with their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. However, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex decided to make a very special donation to a New Zealand charity to help those in need over Christmas.According to the New Zealand Herald, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reached out to Make Give Live, a "Kiwi knitwear social enterprise," to purchase 100 hats in their son's name.

In Covid-19 ravaged California on Christmas Day, remaining ICU capacity for the first time fell to zero across the entire state.

A coronavirus patient is accused of beating his 82-year-old hospital roommate to death with an oxygen tank in Lancaster, Calif., last week because he was upset with his Catholic prayers, according to authorities. The victim shared a two-person room at Antelope Valley Hospital with the suspect, 37-year-old Jesse Martinez.They were both undergoing treatment for COVID-19, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Paging Kirk Cameron. Kirk Cameron to the E.R.

“We are experiencing a modest decline in the rate of growth over the past few days,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom as he addressed the state of the state’s Covid-19 numbers on Wednesday. He then called the 39,069 new cases reported “a modest indication of some possible sign of some good news.” The governor also announced that the 7-day test positivity rate had “declined slightly” from 13.3% to 12.6%

Almost exactly two weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced what became a new lockdown for most of the state’s population, the daily number of new cases has fallen for five successive days. Granted, those numbers are dropping from an all-time new daily case high for the state — or any state, for that matter — of 53,711 announced last Wednesday.

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked about a growth model showing there may be 99,000 virus-related hospitalizations by mid-January.

On Monday California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that many areas of the state would likely see an extension of his 3-week stay-at-home order which is set to expire in Southern California on December 30.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNetflix is delaying the start of production of the Chris Evans-Ryan Gosling thriller “The Gray Man” — which had been scheduled for mid-January — amid concerns about the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in California.Netflix had no comment.

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On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom took a victory lap on Tuesday after the arrival of the first 32,000 doses Covid-19 vaccine. “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” he said. But there was a lot of darkness in the numbers he later announced.

An undocumented immigrant serving time for the killing of a child was released from a California prison earlier this month despite an ignored request from federal immigration agents that he be handed over so they could take him into custody to begin deportation proceedings, officials said Monday. Carlos Morales-Ramirez, 44, left the Valley State Prison in Chowchilla on Dec.