[Wuli]

“Los Angeles area hospitals”

Since when did all of southern California become the “Los Angeles area”???

The area of “Southern California” is 56,505 square miles.

The area of Los Angels is only 505 square miles and even the area of Los Angeles county is just 4,753 square miles. Either one is but a small fraction of all of Southern California, yet I imagine that lumping Los Angeles or even Los Angeles county data into data for all of Southern California makes Southern California outside of Los Angeles and outside Los Angeles county look worse than they really are.

[dragnet2]

Since when did all of southern California become the “Los Angeles area”?

Since forever. People from that area consider everything from Thousand Oaks to San Ysidro, LA. It's all concrete, people, buildings, homes and streets from the Mexican border to Santa Monica Mountains...It's one big city, jammed with about 25,000,000 people, with only imaginary lines separating the cities.

[markman46]

you got it, southern california extends from san diego/imperial county, riverside, san Bernardino, LA county, ventura santa barbara san luis obispo up to mono county. so a good 1/2 of California has zero ICU beds, or so Newscum has been saying

[dragnet2]

Since when did all of southern California become the “Los Angeles area”?

Since forever. People from that area consider everything from Thousand Oaks to San Ysidro, LA. It's all concrete, people, buildings, homes and streets from the Mexican border to Santa Monica Mountains...It's one big city, jammed with about 25,000,000 people, with only imaginary lines separating the cities.

And to prove my point, take a good look at this advertisement slick. It's not my advertisement btw...lol

Once again, just to penetrate your thick skull...LA has always been associated with S. CA. You're just too ignorant to know it.☺