California’s COVID-19 cases decline, but could spike in early May

California’s COVID-19 cases decline, but could spike in early May

Andrew Noymer, Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California, Irvine, has been tracking the number of novel coronavirus cases and fatalities in the U.S. In California … as of Monday, the data Noymer has collected with U.C. Irvine’s Program in Public Health and Orange County Public Health shows that overall deaths in Orange County have flatlined. … Noymer said he’s “apprehensive” about lifting social distancing orders because there’s a possibility for a second wave of novel coronavirus cases.