By City News Service
Dec 29, 2020
SANTA ANA (CNS) - Orange County today continued its record-setting pace of COVID-19 hospitalizations with 2,031 patients, including 453 in intensive care, as officials worry about another holiday-related surge on top of the spike related to Thanksgiving.
The Orange County Health Care Agency also reported 2,144 newly diagnosed infections, raising the county s cumulative case count to 149,607, but the death toll remained unchanged at 1,846.
Hospitalizations jumped from 1,990 on Sunday, when there were 443 patients in intensive care units, according to the Health Care Agency.
The county s state-adjusted ICU bed availability remained at zero, and the unadjusted figure declined from 7.3% Sunday to 5.9% on Monday. The state created the adjusted metric to reflect the difference in beds available for COVID-19 patients and non-coronavirus patients.
Orange County Reports 3,200 New Cases of COVID-19
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS) Orange County reported 3,200 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death Dec. 27, bringing the county’s totals to 147,463 cases and 1,846 fatalities.
The county continues to set records for COVID-19 hospitalizations, as that number rose to 1,990 on Dec. 27, with 443 of those patients in intensive care units (ICU), according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.
The county’s state-adjusted ICU bed availability remained at zero, though the unadjusted figure rose to 7.3 percent, an improvement from 5.7 percent on Dec. 26. The state created the adjusted metric to reflect the difference in beds available for COVID-19 patients and non-COVID patients.
Orange County sets new record with nearly 1,900 COVID-19 hospitalizations
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IRVINE, Dec. 17, 2020 Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2020 shows a mobile field hospital at the medical center of UC University of California Irvine, Orange County, the United States. Southern California s Orange County rolled out mobile field hospitals a
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - Orange County continued to set records on Thursday for COVID-19 hospitalizations, with the number rising to 1,893, while officials also reported another 3,490 confirmed virus infections.
The number of people hospitalized was a 39-patient jump from Wednesday. Of the 1,893 hospital patients, a pandemic-high 405 were being treated in intensive care.
Orange County set another record for COVID-19 hospitalizations Wednesday, with officials also reporting another 4,406 coronavirus cases and two additional deaths.
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