On July 9, Los Angeles County Public Health confirmed 50 new deaths throughout LA County and 1,777 new positive cases of COVID-19. The number of new deaths remains higher than the seven-day average of 24 deaths. The total number of deaths in LA County is 3,689. The total number of positive cases of COVID-19 is 124,738.

As of July 9 there were 2,037 people currently hospitalized throughout LA County, 26% of these people are confirmed cases in the ICU and 17% are confirmed cases on ventilators. This remains substantially higher than the 1,350 to 1,450 daily hospitalizations seen four weeks ago.

Testing results are available for nearly 1,240,000 individuals with 9% of all people testing positive. The daily positivity rate, a composite of a seven-day rolling average, is 9.2%.

According to John Hopkins, as of July 10, global deaths have reached 557,279 with the U.S. leading the way with 133,885 deaths due to COVID-19 followed by Brazil at 69,184. There have been a total of 12,389,660 cases of positive COVID-19 globally. The U.S. is ranked with the highest number of positive tests at 3,169,611 followed by Brazil with 1,755,779 cases. Once among the countries with the highest number of COVID-19 cases, Italy is now at 242,639.

According to the California Dept. of Public Health as of July 10:

• California’s positivity rate – a key indicator of community spread – is trending upward in the 14-day average.
• Hospitalization rates are also trending upward in the 14-day average. 
• Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed, and the seven-day average more accurately describes trends in number of cases. The seven-day average number of new cases is 8,009 per day. The seven-day average from the week prior was 6,825. California has 304,297 confirmed cases to date.
• There have been 5,175,737 tests conducted in California. This represents an increase of 97,303 tests over the prior 24-hour reporting period. As testing capacity continues to increase across the state, an increase in the number of positive cases has been expected – increasing the importance of positivity rates to find signs of community spread.
• There have been 6,851 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
• Thirty counties have one of the following: indoor closure orders, indoor closure orders in progress, or indoor closure orders that will be required if on the County Monitoring List for three or more days.
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