Orange County's COVID-19 hospitalizations and infection rates continue to decline, but another 26 COVID-related fatalities have been added to this month's and last month's death toll, according to data released by the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations and infection rates continue to decline, but another 26 COVID-related fatalities have been added to this month’s and last month’s death toll, according to data released by the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Of those hospitalized, 84% are unvaccinated and 86% in an intensive care unit are not inoculated, according to the OCHCA. “Will we have a longer tail where we never get down to pre-Omicron levels?” Kim wondered. “I don’t know. The good news is that we’re through the surge and the state is asking further action to reduce some of their health and safety measures, but I think we need to be cautious. I don’t want to be alarmist, but we don’t know what the future holds.”“We have to ensure there’s scalability quickly if we face another surge,” Kim said.
The recently logged fatalities hiked up January’s death toll to 479, and February’s death toll so far to 106.December’s death toll stands at 107, November’s at 112, October’s at 136, September’s at 200 and August’s at 186. Of the deaths logged Friday, four were skilled nursing facility residents and four were assisted living facility residents, raising the death tolls in those categories to 1,280 and 675 respectively.
The case rate per 100,000 people decreased from 15.3 Thursday to 14.9 Friday. The testing positivity rate remained at 4.1%, and ticked up from 3% to 3.3% in the health equity quartile, which measures underserved communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
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