As California virus cases fall, more people than ever dying
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, file photo, provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner, Elizabeth "Liz" Napoles, right, works alongside the National Guard who are helping to process COVID-19 deaths that are be placed into temporary storage at LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner Office in Los Angeles. Just a little more than a year after California announced its first case of coronavirus, the nation's most populous state is on the brink of recording its 40,000th death. (LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP, File)Nancy Espinoza, 37, sits with her 3-year-old son at their home in Corona, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, while holding a photo of her husband Antonio Espinoza, who died of COVID-19 three days earlier. Espinoza said she never imagined the virus would take the life of her 36-year-old husband, who managed a hospice nurse program. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia)FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2021 file photo, transporters Miguel Lopez, right, Noe Meza prepare to move a body of a COVID-19 victim to a morgue at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. Just a little more than a year after California announced its first case of coronavirus, the nation's most populous state is on the brink of recording its 40,000th death. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021 file photo drivers wait in line at a mega COVID-19 vaccination site set up in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Just a little more than a year after California announced its first case of coronavirus, the nation's most populous state is on the brink of recording its 40,000th death. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes,File)FILE - This Aug. 19, 2016 photo provided by Maria Rios Luna shows Bernardina Rios de Luna, 59, who died of COVID-19 in January, in her kitchen in Fontana, Calif. The mother of 7, who was a devout Catholic and loved to cook, is one of tens of thousands of Californians who have died of the virus. Her youngest daughter, Maria Rios Luna, said they don't know how the family was infected but she and her mother and her sister in Fontana, Calif., as well as a niece and nephew who were staying with them, all tested positive for COVID-19. (Maria Rios Luna via AP)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, file photo, provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner, Elizabeth "Liz" Napoles, right, works alongside the National Guard who are helping to process COVID-19 deaths that are be placed into temporary storage at LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner Office in Los Angeles. Just a little more than a year after California announced its first case of coronavirus, the nation's most populous state is on the brink of recording its 40,000th death. (LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP, File)