July 18, 2022
Orange County’s mask mandate is probably not coming back just yet
KNBC, July 18, 2022
Orange County’s mask mandate is probably not coming back just yet
“We certainly have seen an increase in cases, but with two+ years into the pandemic, we have more preventive measures to take now that we didn’t have in the past,” [said Dr. Matt Zahn, M.D., Deputy Health Director, Medical Director of Communicable Disease Control Division.] Despite this, the UC Irvine campus instituted the indoor mask rule Monday. “It’s more of the same,” Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and UC Irvine [associate] professor of population health and disease prevention, told City News Service on Friday. “What struck me is we passed 18% positivity. … We’re in a wave of COVID.”