SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalization numbers are continuing to decline, as the Delta variant-fueled summer surge subsides. Hospitalizations ticked down from 367 Friday to 348 Saturday, with the number of patients in intensive care dropping 108 to 101, according to state figures. “Basically, we’re looking pretty good,” Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, told City News Service on Friday. “We’re as good as we expected to be, but I’d like to see lower still. I hope we’re not finding a floor of 350 hospitalizations. I’m not a zero-COVID advocate. I don’t think we’re going to see zero COVID hospitalizations any time soon, but the numbers do look good to me and the percent positivity is down, which suggests we should find a lower floor sometime next week.” Noymer was disappointed that a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel rejected a plan …
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