SANTA ANA (CNS)—Orange County’s weekly COVID-19 averages released June 1 show the case rates have dropped below 1 in 100,000 and the positivity rate is nearly one-half of a percentage point. According to the weekly state data released every Tuesday, the average for the county’s daily case rate per 100,000 residents dropped from 1.3 to 0.9. The overall test positivity rate improved from 0.8 percent to 0.6 percent, and the county’s Health Equity Quartile rate, which measures positivity in hot spots in disadvantaged communities, remained at 0.7 percent. “It’s crazy low,” said Andrew Noymer, a University of California–Irvine (UC Irvine) professor of population health and disease prevention, referring to the weekly averages. “It doesn’t surprise me that much,” Noymer said. “I’ve always said that we were going to have this chaotic period during the emergence of COVID-19 and then we would have the seasonality, so it’s going to become like …