OC’s COVID-19 hospitalizations remain stable

“It’s more of the same, but nowhere near the 200 number (of patients) that I would call a full-blown wave of hospitalizations,” Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and UC Irvine [associate] professor of [public] health, told City News Service on Friday. … Noymer told CNS that the ICU numbers have not gone up markedly. “The ICU is still low, which is important, and which kind of indicates some of those (hospitalizations) may be incidental (cases).”