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- Deaths are roughly linear with confirmed cases on a log scale
- By March 24th the following counties were already observing deaths: Santa Clara (SCL), Riverside (RIV), San Jose (SJ), Sacramento (SAC), LA County, Orange County.
- By June 25th:
- In terms of confirmed cases and deaths per 1 Million county population
- The leading counties are were Lake (LAK), Nevada (NEV), Mono (MNO) with Imperial (IMP) catching up since the end of May.
- These are followed by LA County (LA), Orange Country (OR), Kings County (KIN), Tuolumne (TUO) and Riverside (RIV).
- If one just takes the number of cases (i.e. do not normalize by the population of the county) then:
- The leading counties are LA County (LA), Orange County (OR), Lake County (LAK), Nevada County (Nevada), Riverside (RIV), San Diego County (SD) and San Bernadino County (SBD)
- In general, the counties with lower per capita income appear to have lower numbers of confirmed cases and deaths, The exceptions are Lake County (LAK), Imperial County (IMP), Kern County (KER), Tuolumne County (TUO) and Fremont County (FRE).
- In terms of confirmed cases and deaths per 1 Million county population
- By July 20:
- LA county, Orange county (ORA), Lake, Riverside (RIV), San Diego (SD) and San Bernadino (SBD) counties by July 20 had a clear lead in deaths and confirmed cases.
- By this time LA county had almost four times the deaths of the next highest (Orange) county and almost three times the confirmed cases.
- The following counties still had zero deaths:
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