California has now surpassed India Germany and the UK for a 7 day average of new cases

 California cases for the past 7 days are now at 40,000

India new cases is presently between 20,000 and 30,000 cases

The same for Germany and United Kingdom regarding India

So, if California were a country at around 40 million people it

would have about 15,000 more cases in the last 7 days than any of these countries.

Southern California now has ZERO ICU beds which also means that people likely are

now dying at closer to 5% or 10% of the total number of cases instead of at the normal rate of 2.5%

when there are ICU beds available.

Information from CNN News at 3:23 PM ET on December 18th 2020.