5-10-20

Los Angeles Times

Desert mystery: Why have pronghorn antelope returned to Death Valley?

by Louis Sahagun

More than a century after railroads, ranchers and hunters vanquished their ancestors, pronghorn antelope are returning to this unforgiving expanse of desert along the California-Nevada border.

MERCED (BLJ) – Merced Public Health Department on May 9 reported 163 cases (17 new) and three dead. The double digit increase in cases in a couple of days is undoubtedly due to more testing. But the testing is still very inadequate and if the city and county politicians have their way, it will continue to be inadequate.

California reported 64,532 cases (834 new) and 2,630 deaths (351 new since May 6).

The United States reported 1,338,988 cases (25,190 new) and 79,522 deaths (1,597 new).

MERCED (BLJ) – The Merced County Public Health Department reported 146 cases of COVID-19 on May 4 (six new) and three deaths.

California reported 55,657 cases (1,987 new) and 2,254 deaths (62 new).

The United States reported 1,208,674 cases (25,011 new) and 69,680 deaths (1,404 new).

The global figure is 3,584,274 cases (76,909 new) and 251,580 deaths (4,089 new).

MERCED (BLJ) –

Merced County Public Health Department on the morning of May 2 reported 140 cases (six new) and three deaths. However, the Merced Sun-Star reported that county Public Health Department “officials have recently said that the number of total coronavirus cases since the pandemic began is more likely 450 cases in Merced County, but insufficient testing capacity has led to an incomplete tally.

Stanislaus County reported 380 cases of COVID-19 (6 new) and 13 deaths.

Madera County reports 46 cases and 2 deaths.