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The number of coronavirus cases is on the rise in California and health officials are increasingly concerned about COVID clusters in multiple neighborhoods. WHERE ARE THE COVID CLUSTERS HAPPENING?In Sacramento, the city’s Meadowview neighborhood south of Florin Road is a COVID hot spot, with 521 cases in the 95823 ZIP code, according to Sacramento County’s public health dashboard. “The district has a high concentration of essential workers,” said Sacramento city councilman Larry Carr. “Those people who had to go to work during the virus. They cannot telecommute,” Carr said. “They didn’t have jobs that allow them to do that. They suffered a significant exposure to the virus.”Carr added, “They were the garbage workers, hotel maids, people who have to come into contact with people every...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) -- We're seeing it across the country: the average age of people infected with coronavirus is dropping following a reopening of businesses. "This is not unique to Rochester," Olmsted County Public Health Director Graham Briggs said in a briefing Thursday afternoon. The Med City is seeing this surge and trend toward younger patients, with a recent outbreak of 58 confirmed cases stemming from downtown Rochester. "This is something whether you are in Miami, Seattle, Houston or downtown Rochester. These sorts of behaviors we are seeing across the country represent a risk for on going transmission, particularly for young groups of people," Briggs said. Olmsted County Public Health director says these outbreak demographics aren't unique...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirms 59 new deaths and 4,592 new cases of COVID-19. This is the largest increase in new cases in L.A. since the pandemic began, surpassing the count from just two days before of 4,244 new cases. Over the last 48 hours there have been 7,350 new cases. COVID-related hospitalizations are also at a record high of 2,173 people on Thursday. That surpasses the old record of 2,103 people hospitalized, which was also set on Tuesday. To be absolutely clear, that means L.A. has set records for new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations on two out of the past three days. Those numbers come on the same day the State of California reported that it’s 7-day running average of daily new cases totaled more than 8,000 for the first time...

Cases of COVID-19 climbed by 1,257 Thursday in Illinois, and 25 more people died from the respiratory disease, but the latest daily case count above 1,000 comes as the state conducted a record 43,006 tests in 24 hours. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported a seven-day positivity test rate Thursday of 3.1%, and the daily rate dipped to 2.9%. The positivity rate has hovered around 3% for the past week.                                                                                                                                                                                              ...