With hospitalizations in focus, OC deciding whether to report more consistent numbers

With hospitalizations in focus, OC deciding whether to report more consistent numbers

County numbers on hospitalizations are lower than those tracked by the state. … Andrew Noymer, an associate professor of public health at UC Irvine, said the big-picture trend in both datasets are indeed similar. “This doesn’t look like anything that I would consider untoward,” Noymer said. “I’m not seeing anything in here that’s like a red flag.”