BREAKING: California will end the statewide mask mandate on Feb. 15.
Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations and case rates continued a downward trend Monday, but January’s death toll has eclipsed the worst months of last summer’s surge, according to Orange County Health Care Agency data.The county reported 28 more COVID-19-related fatalities since Friday, with 24 of them occurring last month. That hiked January’s death toll to 200. The last time the county had a month reach that high a number was March of last year, with 202 fatalities that month.
“The key numbers keep going down, which is good,” Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, told City News Service on Friday. “… Things are moving in the right direction partly because these things have a natural cycle and we’re on the downward cycle of it. It’s also partly because people took it seriously and masked up, and continuing that is still on the menu … Masking is still prudent.
Noymer said Friday it was likely January’s death toll would surge past the worst of the Delta wave in August and September. “There’s a good possibility of that,” Chinsio-Kwong said when asked if January’s death toll may exceed the worst of the summer surge. “Just because of the significant amount of positive cases over the last couple of weeks. The current variants may be milder, so even if the percentage may be lower, the sheer number of cases will be the same amount of deaths if not more than Delta. Proportionally, we expect it to be less, but the gross number will be the same or a little bit higher.
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