https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/03/coronavirus-bay-area-facing-a-delicate-threshold-as-alameda-county-reports-most-deaths-yet/

An early leader in battling COVID-19, the Bay Area this week logged the region’s highest number of deaths in a single day, driven by Alameda County, which has reported 38 deaths in the past two days.

California has been battling a summer wave of cases and deaths that started after state officials began easing lockdown restrictions in June, with infections and deaths peaking in July and August in much of the state and rising sharply in Southern California and the Central Valley.