SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—Orange County continued its record-setting pace of COVID-19 hospitalizations Dec. 28 with 2,031 patients, including 453 in intensive care, as officials worry about another holiday-related surge on top of the spike related to Thanksgiving. The Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) also reported 2,144 newly diagnosed infections, raising the county’s cumulative case count to 149,607, but the death toll remained unchanged at 1,846. Hospitalizations jumped from 1,990 on Dec. 27, when there were 443 patients in intensive care units (ICU), according to the Health Care Agency. The county’s state-adjusted ICU bed availability remained at zero, and the unadjusted figure declined from 7.3 percent on Dec. 27 to 5.9 percent on Dec. 28. The state created the adjusted metric to reflect the difference in beds available for COVID-19 patients and non-COVID patients. Just because a county’s adjusted ICU rate may be zero, it does not mean there are …