Los Angeles is reporting one Covid death every eight minutes
From CNN s Cheri Mossburg
Refrigerated overflow morgue containers outside the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday, January 6. Bing Guan/Bloomberg/Getty Images
One person is dying from Covid-19 in Los Angeles every eight minutes, according to a new tweet from the county.
Over 11,000 Los Angeles County residents have died of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. More than 5,000 of those deaths have occurred in the past two months, data from the LA County Department of Public Health shows.
“People who were otherwise leading healthy, productive lives are now passing away because of a chance encounter with the COVID-19 virus, LA County Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Wednesday, adding that the county is seeing more than 200 deaths each day.
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