Orange County continues to break coronavirus records with north of 500 ICU patients in local hospitals as of last weekend.
The number of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in intensive care units has jumped 34% in the past two weeks, with 501 ICU patients as of Jan. 2 according to data from the Orange County Health Care Agency.
There were 2,097 total hospitalized patients, up 25% from the 1,682 hospitalized two weeks ago.
Orange County continues to have 0% ICU capacity on an adjusted basis, which takes into account the ratio of COVID to non-COVID patients, and 7.5% on an unadjusted basis.
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