Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday that if trends in his city continue, coronavirus cases could double every two days, and within five days the city would be on par with New York’s outbreak.
“We will be where they are,” Garcetti said, according to The Associated Press. “We will have doctors making excruciating decisions. We will be trying to figure out what we do with that surge, how to get ventilators, where to find beds.”
Los Angeles County, which has more than 10 million residents, saw 678 new cases over the last 48 hours, bringing the total to 1,500. More than 360 people have died of coronavirus in New York City, which has 26,000 cases of the virus.
LA County residents got an emergency push alert to their phones Friday evening encouraging them to stay home, and notifying them that beaches and trails had been closed.
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