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.
The last time the positivity rate was that low, the state was averaging about 2,000 cases and 50