A plan to quickly scale up staffing for any potential future surges of COVID-19 patients in hospitals and other servicesneeded was approved Tuesday by the Orange County Board of Supervisors. The board approved private contracts to provide staffing if large pods need to be set up to dispense modified vaccines or erect tents at hospitals to cover an overflow of…
Despite the highly contagious Omicron variant-driven surge the county is in, Kim said he was not concerned about the ability of hospitals to handle the increase in patients.
But from July 1-10, 15 patients were admitted directly for COVID-19 who were designated as incompletely vaccinated or totally unvaccinated. Another five were vaccinated with no booster, and another four received shots and a booster. The county's testing positivity rate increased from 19.3% a week ago to 19.6%, and rose from 20.7% to 22.4% in the health equity quartile, which measures the communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
Of the fatalities logged since Friday, all but one was this month, raising July's death toll to 37. One fatality was in June, raising its death toll to 44.
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