Orange County sees rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Orange County sees rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Dr. Andrew Noymer, associate professor of population health and disease prevention for the University of California, Irvine’s Program in Public Health, said “things are taking a turn unfortunately for the worse” in Southern California. “Orange County has been doing well historically in the last few months, but now it’s starting to look a lot worse and a lot more like the counties it borders: Los Angeles County, San Diego County,” Dr. Noymer said. “Cases are going up, hospitalizations are going up, ICU hospitalizations are going up, mortality is going up. So even net of the undercounting, statistics are getting worse, not better.”