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OC’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers continue to be dogged by uncertainty, with the numbers of reported patients dropping over the past week.
OC hospital employees are increasingly tired after hospitalizations saw a dramatic increase since the beginning of June and have remained somewhat steady, but high, the past week.
While it seems that the number of people hospitalized for Coronavirus in OC stabilized this week, there is concern that daily death counts seem to be creeping up.
Orange County Coronavirus hospitalizations are now rising faster than at any other point in the pandemic.
Health and business leaders are raising concerns the county’s top elected official is underplaying the truth of the pandemic’s continued spread.
As of Tuesday, 301 people were hospitalized with coronavirus in OC, up 67 percent from a month ago, according to mandatory data reported by hospitals to the California Department of Public Health.
April was the deadliest month for Orange County’s homeless in at least five years, according to the coroner data. Most of the deaths are still under investigation.
After repeated questions – from Voice of OC, county supervisors and the public – officials say they’re now starting to look into collecting such information.
Tonight, Fullerton could join other cities in OC requiring face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Cities like Costa Mesa and Buena Park required everyone to cover up when out in public, while others like Santa Ana, Irvine, and Westminster only apply the mandate to employers and workers in essential businesses while residents in those cities are merely encouraged to cover up.
Doctors in at least one OC hospital, UC Irvine Medical Center, are ringing alarm bells of crucial supply shortages and a lack of adequate response by administrators to a local outbreak of the novel coronavirus.