How are COVID-19 cases progressing? There were 4,625 new confirmed cases Saturday. Numbers do not represent true day-over-day change as these results include cases from prior to yesterday. The total number of deaths is 14,329, an increase of 78 from Friday.

t requires a swab deep in the nasal cavity for a proper sample, but the results, which are back in around five minutes, can produce false negatives -- meaning a patient with the flu may not know it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the quick tests are only 50 to 70 percent a......

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Ethnicity of deceased is available for a subset of the total number of deaths as reported by law enforcement. In percent of California population, Other appears as zero because it is not used in making population estimates.

Between Sunday and Monday, there were 59 additional hospitalizations due to confirmed COVID-19 and 12 fewer cases in intensive care units.

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivers a speech during the conference of Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria on October 10, 2019, in Lyon, France. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on April 5, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Zach Gibson/Getty Images