California now reporting 525 COVID deaths every day - KCRA Sacramento

More Californians than ever are dying from the coronavirus -- a knee-bucking 525 every day — and with the number expected to keep climbing state officials said Friday they are sending more refrigerated trailers to act as makeshift morgues for overwhelmed county coroner’s offices.

Newsom said the state was on pace to exceed his goal of giving out roughly 1.5 million doses by Friday.

California — the nation's most populous state with nearly 40 million residents — has averaged more than 41,000 new coronavirus cases each day for the past two weeks, dwarfing earlier outbreaks.

While California has the second-highest number of deaths in the country, the state ranks 39th in the number of deaths per capita at 81.8.