State puts Orange County on coronavirus watch list

State puts Orange County on coronavirus watch list

Bernadette Boden-Albala, dean of UC Irvine’s public health program and an expert in social epidemiology, said that early in the pandemic, Orange County residents did a good job of heeding public health warnings and slowing the virus’s spread from the outset. But lately, several factors, including shelter-in-place fatigue and a longing for summer sun, have made locals complacent, Boden-Albala said in an interview last week.