California was supposed to have the coronavirus under control. Eleven other California counties immediately followed suit, and on March 19 Gov. Gavin Newson expanded the rule to cover the entire state — three days before New York implemented a similar order. Mobility plummeted, and as cases and deaths
LOS ANGELES — California was supposed to have the coronavirus under control. Then people went back to work.
Suddenly, the national media is mentioning California in the same breath as Florida, Arizona and Texas — as one of the reeling Sun Belt states where COVID-19 is staging its unwelcome comeback. But it’s still partially true in California, where the rolling seven-day average of new daily tests has shot up by nearly 49 percent over the last two weeks, to more than 92,000 per day.
The New York Times followed with a story that put the onus on “millions of individual decisions made across the vast state” as the result of “a decentralized, haphazard process that sowed confusion and gave residents a false sense that they were in the clear.” “I’ve had an explosion of new outbreaks in workplaces,” Ferrer added Monday. “One that got shut down this past weekend, it had over 115 infections.”
Infections among frontline and service-industry workers are an underappreciated aspect of COVID-19’s California comeback. Consider young people. As in Florida, Texas, Arizona and elsewhere, cases in California have been skewing younger in recent weeks. Part of that is expanded access to testing. Part is probably personal behavior. But part is work-related.
In certain areas, the gap is even worse. When researchers from the University of California, San Francisco tested nearly 4,000 residents of San Francisco’s Mission District — a rapidly gentrifying community where white hipsters and tech workers live side by side with longtime Latino residents — about equal numbers of Latinos and non-Latino white people participated. But nearly all of those who tested positive were Latino; less than 1 percent were white.
These numbers hint at a common thread that may be driving COVID-19’s resurgence: economic inequality. In order to contain the virus, communities have to reduce its prevalence to a manageable level before reopening. As Dr.
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