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Officials in Orange County and elsewhere in California are preparing to close a number of COVID-19 mass vaccination sites as bookings for appointments continue to drop dramatically and authorities look to shift doses to mobile vaccine clinics, pharmacies and doctor’s offices.
Orange County officials said the demand for first doses has dropped by over 75% since the end of April. As a result, efforts will be made to boost vaccine clinics in neighborhoods. The county said that on June 6, it will close mass vaccination sites at the Anaheim Convention Center, OC Fair & Event Center, Soka University and Santa Ana College.
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According to numbers issued Tuesday afternoon by the Orange County Health Care Agency, the daily case count per 100,000 students has dropped to 2.4, but that’s not enough to move into the yellow tier, so we are still in the slightly more restrictive orange tier.
Counties that reach the yellow tier have brighter economic prospects, as more businesses and venues among them gyms, movie theaters, stadiums, museums and amusement parks are allowed to operate at a higher capacity than previously.
Orange County's COVID-19 hospitalizations fell out of triple digits for the first time in months Monday, while the county also reported just 55 new infections and did not log any new fatalities.
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Orange County’s number of COVID-19 hospitalizations fell out of triple-digits for the first time in months today, while the county also reported just 55 new infections and did not log any further fatalities.
“That’s amazing,” Andrew Noymer, a UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, told City News Service of the hospitalization number.
“Hospitalization is the most reliable metric that we deal with,” Noymer said. “And I’m really pleased to see it below 100. There’s nothing magic about 100. There’s nothing epidemiologically different between 95 and 105, but lower is better and there is a psychology to all of this. Even to an epidemiologist we’re still susceptible to the psychology of it all, so I’m pleased.”