COVID-19 Continues To Hit Manhattan Beach As Numbers Increase

MANHATTAN BEACH — While there is no public data available to know how many Manhattan Beach residents were tested within the past two days, data does show that 10 of the city's residents tested positive for COVID-19 in just two days. On Thursday, Nov. 19, the city's numbers hit 473; last night [Saturday, Nov. 21], the city had 483 cases of residents who'd tested positive for coronavirus.

The latest increase comes on the heels of other notable increases. Just last Sunday, Nov. 16, MB had 460 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Depending on today's results, the city has jumped by at least 23 cases in one week.

The increasing numbers come at a time when perhaps more people are seeking tests due to Thanksgiving and wanting to feel safe visiting others. Positive tests, however, are not completely infallible and neither are negative ones.

The 483 positive cases represents data that has been officially collected since March. This past Thursday, Nov. 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced a limited Stay at Home order for LA County that began last night at 10 p.m. Unless conducting essential business, residents and visitors cannot be out between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. until informed otherwise.

According to an LA County DPH news release issued this morning, "There are 1,391 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 26% of these people are in the ICU," which is "nearly a doubling of the daily number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 since the beginning of October where the daily number of hospitalized patients was under 700."

The county reports that "Younger people continue to drive the increase in community transmission in the county. More than 72% of the new cases today are from people under the age of 50 years old. However, 91% of today’s reported deaths are people who are over 50 years old."