ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Southern California is reeling from a surge in coronavirus cases. In the coming days, Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest, will reach a level where one in 10 residents has tested positive for the virus. Dozens of overcrowded hospitals have had to shut their emergency-room doors to ambulances for hours at a time. Medical wards are running dangerously low on a vital necessity: oxygen, and the portable canisters to supply it to patients. Los Angeles County has a coronavirus-related death every eight minutes, a grim toll accompanied in many neighborhoods by the soundtrack of shrieking sirens. “We’re having our New York moment,” said Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, referring to the weeks in March and April when New York City was the epicenter of the virus. Part of the reason for the new surge appears to be the cumulative effect of many small gatherings held for Thanksgiving, which acted as a collective superspreader event. In the seven-day period ending on Friday, Los Angeles County averaged 187 deaths a day, the most of any American county and double the nation’s per capita rate. (The county’s death toll, though awful, is far smaller than that of New York City in the spring, when less was understood about the disease and treatment was not as sophisticated as it is now. At the peak of its crisis in April, New York City averaged around 800 deaths each day.) But the worst may still be ahead. Tap the link in our bio to read more on how Southern California got to this point. Photos by @alexwelshphoto, @philipcheungphoto and @kendrickbrinson.」1月10日 3時11分