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Observations:
- The firsr confirmed cases were in LA county and Orange counties Jan 26,2020.
- The first death was in LA county Mar 3, 2020.
- As of Aug 13, 2020 LA county (population almost 10 Million) is far and away the leader in confirmed case with 214K cases and 511 deaths. Orange county is next (with a population of just over 3 Million) with 42K cases.
- If one normalizes by county population, then Santa Barbara takes the lead followed by Orange county and Monterey county.
- For comparison we included San Mateo county one the Bay Area counties top counties in terms of Covid-19 cases, is one of the bottom 3 California coastal counties in terms of confirmed cases.
- Looking at the ratio %(deaths/confirmed cases) LA county leads followed by Santa Barbara county, San Mateo county and Orange County