The prevalence of the coronavirus in LA County is higher than ever before: officials estimate that 1 in 80 people in the county are currently infectious with the virus.
Up until this point, the highest this figure had ever been was 1 in 140. In November, it was close to 1 in 1000.
a while ago I wrote about this number and how it's calculated https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-25/la-county-coronavirus-infection-prevalence
'Getting worse each day': 1 in 145 L.A. County residents can infect others with the coronavirus

One out of every 145 people in L.A. County is infectious COVID-19, officials said — a drastic jump from two months ago, when the rate was about 1 in 880.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-25/la-county-coronavirus-infection-prevalence
"Slowing the spread of a virus when 1 in every 1,000 people are infected and infecting others is a very different story and astronomically easier than slowing the spread of virus when 1 in every 80 people are infected," LA County official Dr. Christina Ghaly said today.
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