Americans have been urged to learn to live with the coronavirus, but this summer, hundreds were still dying from it each day. ⁠ ⁠ In Los Angeles County, more people died of COVID between May and July this year than during the same months last year. The virus claimed the lives of nearly 800 people in L.A. County in those months, compared with nearly 500 a year earlier.⁠ ⁠ Across California, roughly half of COVID deaths this summer were among people who had reached age 80 or older, and nearly one-third were between 65 and 79, a Times analysis of state data found.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in bio.