Why those daily coronavirus counts aren’t the complete picture

The novel coronavirus was infecting and killing many more people in the outbreak’s early stages than public officials knew at the time, Los Angeles and Riverside counties have revealed through new data that gives a better picture of when people actually got sick or died.
On March 4, when California and L.A. County declared public health emergencies, officials were aware of seven confirmed cases in L.A. County and one in a Riverside County resident who had been on a cruise ship. Now they ha