This Single County Has More COVID-19 Deaths Than 40 States Do

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Nov 30, 7:31AM EST

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Ten of America’s 50 states have fatal COVID-19 cases that total over 7,000 each. A single county, the largest in the United States by population, has topped that figure also. Los Angeles County has recorded 7,623 deaths due to the disease.

The 10 states ahead of Los Angeles County are New York (34,433 deaths), Texas (21,639), California (19,026), Florida (18,354), New Jersey (16,925), Illinois (12,594), Massachusetts (10,604), Pennsylvania (10,172), Georgia (9,336) and Michigan (9,170).

Los Angeles County is also ahead of some large states by population that have been hard hit by the disease. This includes in particular Arizona, which has had 6,568 fatal cases, many concentrated in the areas around Phoenix, the nation’s fifth-largest city, with a population of almost 1.7 million people.

Los Angeles County has a population of 10,105,518. That makes it about double the size of the next largest county by that measure, which is Cook County, home to Chicago, at 5,180,493. Harris County, home to Houston, follows at 4,698,619, and then Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, with its population of 4,410,824.
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Los Angeles County includes America’s second-largest city, Los Angeles, which has a population of 3,979,576. The county contains 13 other cities with populations of over 100,000. Covering 4,083 square miles, the county is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

Among the markers for the deep trouble in Los Angeles County is that it has 386,194 confirmed cases, which have started to rise by 5,000 a day. Daily new hospitalizations have reached 2,000. Media reports say about a quarter of those are in intensive care.

New and strict regulations may start to bring down the rapid spread of the disease in Los Angeles County. However, they may be too late to stop a post-Thanksgiving surge. According to CBS Los Angeles, “The new order, which will last through at least Dec. 20, advises residents to stay at home as much as possible, always wear a face-covering outside the home, and prohibits all public and private gatherings except for constitutionally-protected religious services and protests.” Retailers will only be able to operate at 35% of the capacity their stores normally are allowed to have.

At the present rate, new surges in Los Angeles County could put the daily coronavirus death toll above 8,000, a grim reminder of the grip the disease has on much of America.
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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.