Thanksgiving has come and gone and now Hanukkah is upon us. Residents of Beverly Hills have grown accustomed to a holiday season of rapidly-changing health orders, initiatives and programs. As the year winds down, Los Angeles County continues to see more new cases of COVID-19 every day than any other point during the pandemic. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed 74 new deaths and 12, 819 new cases of COVID-19 as of Dec. 10. In Beverly Hills, there have been 1,152 cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths. To date, the agency has identified 487,917 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County, and a total of 8,149 deaths.
According to Public Health, this is the highest number of daily deaths since July 29. At press time, the county has reported 3,433 hospitalized patients.
