Southern California outpacing Bay Area in new coronavirus cases. So where's the peak?
The San Francisco Bay Area suffered one of the nation's earliest outbreaks of COVID-19, but cases from Southern California and the Central Valley are outpacing it, threatening a much larger population, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of county health data.
Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern, Stanislaus and Tulare counties are now seeing faster rates of newly detected coronavirus cases than any of the counties in the Bay Area, the Times analysis found.
And with more than 6,000 confirmed cases in L.A. County alone, chances of exposure are increasing rapidly.
"If you have enough supplies in your home, this would be the week to skip shopping altogether," L.A. County Public Health Director
