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Residents who lost homes, businesses in Valley Fire struggling to recover
The full cost of the Valley Fire has not yet been finalized. Neither has who will pay for it all.
COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations worsen in hard-hit Imperial County
After seeing improvements this summer, Imperial County’s positivity rate for COVID-19 cases has more than doubled in the past month.
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Excess deaths in San Diego
An inewsource investigation revealed how official county death totals have failed to capture the true scope of the pandemic.
More than 1,100 people have died of COVID-19 or related causes in San Diego since this March, yet have remained uncounted for various reasons. More than a third of those people are Hispanic.
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by Jill Castellano & Mary Plummer
CORONAVIRUS
5 takeaways from our investigation into uncounted deaths during the pandemic
Roughly 1,000 more San Diego County residents died from March through August than in a normal year – well above the official COVID-19 death tally.
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