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Covid in California: The state is struggling to contain the virus – BBC News
California’s poor residents are among those hardest hit by the pandemic.
By Regan Morris and Sophie Long BBC News, Los Angeles
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California was praised for acting swiftly to contain the coronavirus last spring. Now more than 31,000 people have died of the virus in the state. What went wrong?
California was the first to issue a state-wide stay-at-home order, and experts at the time predicted the pandemic would peak here in April with fewer than 2,000 lives lost.
But since November, deaths have surged by more than 1,000%….
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