https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/08/coronavirus-california-has-cut-three-key-metrics-by-half-or-more/

Although many counties paused reporting for Labor Day weekend, the data that did come in continued to show a pandemic in retreat across much of California.

There were fewer people hospitalized from COVID-19 than any point since mid-June, while the seven-day positivity rate fell to 4% — half its peak — for the first time since late-May, according to data analyzed by this news organization.