Young residents continue to account for an outsize share of the new cases, officials said. Hospitalizations continued to trend downward, with a total of 1,514 confirmed coronavirus patients as of Saturday, compared with 2,017 patients two weeks before. Orange County added 565 cases of the virus and six deaths on Sunday, bringing its total to 39,641 cases and 726 deaths. Hospitalizations continued to decline there too, with 487 confirmed coronavirus patients in county hospitals as of Saturday, compared with 687 two Saturdays before. They are working to fix the system and said that could cause a spike in new cases as the backlog of lab reports is cleared.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 09, 2020 22:39 UTC