California’s overall pandemic trends appear to be improving, led especially by declining hospitalizations in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, although hospitals in the Central Valley and the rural north remain under terrible strain.

Among Californians of all ages, 58% are fully vaccinated, while in Britain, 65% are fully vaccinated.

Currently, California is reporting an average of 100 COVID-19 deaths a day, significantly worse than the tallies of 20 to 30 deaths a day earlier in the summer, but still far better than the nearly 550 deaths a day recorded at the peak of the pandemic during the winter surge.

In the most likely scenario, if vaccines continue to be distributed at the current pace, daily deaths are expected to remain steady, the institute’s model says.

If more people wear masks, daily deaths would decline.

But if all vaccinated people stopped wearing masks, and variants spread even faster than expected, daily deaths could reach 500 a day by mid-November, according to the institute’s model.

CDC finds the unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to die of COVID.

27 and Friday, new weekly coronavirus cases have dropped by 36% in the San Francisco Bay Area, 28% in Southern California, 27% in the Greater Sacramento area, 18% in the San Joaquin Valley and 15% in rural Northern California.

The Bay Area has a rate of 11; Southern California, 15; the Greater Sacramento area, 26; rural Northern California, 31; and the San Joaquin Valley, 35, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis.

Hospitals in the Central Valley and rural Northern California remain under considerable duress.

In Del Norte County, on California’s northern border, more than half of hospitalized patients at the main hospital in Crescent City have COVID-19.

But she expressed hope that targeted vaccination orders will help, like the one that children 12 and older in Los Angeles public schools be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January to enter campus.

30; California school employees also have been ordered to be vaccinated or be tested weekly.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that, compared to vaccinated people, unvaccinated people in areas hit by the Delta surge were 4 1/2 times more likely to contract the coronavirus, 10 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19, and 11 times more likely to die