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    COVID-19 spreading with astonishing speed — 100,000 new cases in L.A. County in little more than a week

    by Alex Wigglesworth and Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times Dec 19, 2020 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County has recorded 100,000 new coronavirus cases in little more than a week as the infections continued to multiply with astonishing speed not seen at any other point of the pandemic.

    COVID-19 showed no signs of slowing in L.A. or across the state, which posted record numbers all week, heightening concerns that already overwhelmed hospitals will get even more strained in the coming weeks.

    Experts say it typically takes two to three weeks for a person who contracts the coronavirus to become sick enough to require hospital care. And California is now reporting two to three times more cases than it was at the beginning of December, according to data compiled by the Los Angeles Times.

    As of Saturday morning, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance was treating 97 patients for COVID-19, according to hospital Chief Executive Anish Mahajan. For the past 10 days,

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