Orange County saw a significant increase in COVID-19 hospital admissions on Thursday, July 1st.
The number of hospital patients rose from 56 on Wednesday to 70 on Thursday, while the number of intensive care patients rose from 10 to 13.
“I’m not thrilled, but it’s a bit hard to tell if the surge is currently a cause for concern,” Andrew Noemer, professor of population health and disease prevention at the University of California, Irvine told the city intelligence service.
“It would be good to watch the numbers” to see if there is a trend or if it is just a one-day blip in the data, Neumer said.
“Los Angeles County has also seen some modest gains,” he said. “I would like to see an average run over a couple of days. It seems like a large number and not a large number, but I wasn’t scared yet. “
The county won’t receive another update until next week as officials move to weekly reports instead of daily reports. The county recently stopped reporting data on weekends and now updates it once a week.
“I don’t support that,” said Neumer. Printing daily numbers won’t kill them. I think it should be daily. “
The county reported 54 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, making a cumulative total of 256,371.
Orange County’s leaders announced Wednesday that the county has met its July 4th goal of 70% of its adult population receiving at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. They called the county’s vaccination campaign Operation Independence.
As of Wednesday – the latest statistics available – the county had 1,779,309 residents fully vaccinated. Of these, 1,663,883 received two doses and 244,757 single injections of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, which required two doses. 115,426 people received a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
“I would like to see it higher than 70%,” said Neumer. “I would like to see 70% of those 12 and more.
“We’re never going to get 100%,” he said, “but I’d like to see 85% of the eligible population.”
“In recent months, vaccination has proven to be an essential part of reducing test-positive rates in our county,” said Dr. Clayton Chao, director of the OC health department and county health officer, in a press release Wednesday evening.
“Since the reopening of our state on the 15th.
“The most interesting thing is the fact that more than 90% of the new positive cases were in people who weren’t fully vaccinated,” said Zhao. In fact, more than 95% of people hospitalized with COVID-19 are not fully vaccinated. We know vaccines work. We continue to offer it to our community and encourage all who have not been vaccinated to do so. “
Dr. Regina Chinseo-kwong, the county’s deputy health agency, warned residents of newer and more contagious strains like the Delta variant.
“We know other parts of the world are seeing new spikes in COVID cases, often linked to the Delta Tribe, which has been shown to be highly transmissible,” Chinseo-kwong said in a press release. “In the past few weeks, the Delta strain has seen an increasing percentage of positive tests in the US, California and Orange County. Studies have shown that current COVID-19 vaccines are also effective against the Delta strain, as well as “This is another reason why we encourage people to vaccinate if they have not already done so.”
On Thursday, the HCA recorded another fatality that occurred on Jan. 19, bringing the total COVID-19 death toll in the county to 5,122.
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