OC Health Officials Report Jump In COVID-19 Hospitalizations; Cases Surpass 80K

Health officials also reported 1,208 new coronavirus cases and one additional fatality Wednesday. … “In the last two days, we’ve picked up 84 in hospitals,” said Andrew Noymer, a UC Irvine associate professor of population health and disease prevention. “That’s like a 50% increase. It’s getting worse before our very eyes.” “We can’t take much more than the 722 we had in July,” Noymer said. “It’s going to get worse is the problem. It’s going to exceed 722. We’re pushing into unknown territory,” Noymer said.