The rate at which coronavirus tests are coming back positive has fallen in the last week in Los Angeles County but is expected to rise further in Orange County.
In Los Angeles County, the so-called positivity rate is 4.4%, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said Tuesday, a decrease from the previous week, when the positive test rate was 6.6%.
Officials in Orange County expressed continued concern about the trajectory of COVID-19 hospitalizations in California’s third most populous county. Nine Orange County hospitals reported that it was taking more than an hour for many patients to be offloaded from ambulances to emergency rooms, Schultz said.
Hospital crowding is still not as bad as it was last winter, Schultz said. And Orange County is not in a position where officials are urging hospitals to cancel elective, or scheduled, surgeries. As of Monday, 461 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized in Orange County, down slightly from Saturday, when 463 patients were recorded, the highest number in nearly six months, as the winter surge was fading. Still, the recent number is far below the peak of the winter surge, when 2,259 people were hospitalized in Orange County’s hospitals.
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