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Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations drop slightly

Spectrum News 1 (City News Service), Sept. 6, 2021

September 6, 2021

Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations drop slightly

The average age of COVID-19 patients is skewing younger compared with the winter surge, so that could be contributing to a higher survival rate, Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and UC Irvine [associate] professor of population health and disease prevention, told CNS on Thursday.