Orange County Reports 47 New COVID-19 Deaths

Health care workers use a continuous positive airway pressure machine on a COVID-19 patient who was having difficulties breathing, in a COVID-19 holding pod at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2021. Ariana Drehsler/AFP via Getty Images

SANTA ANA (CNS)—Orange County reported 1,448 new cases of COVID-19 and 47 additional deaths on Jan. 17, bringing the county’s totals to 210,813 cases and 2,367 fatalities.

Hospitalization rates continued to dip, dropping to 2,026 Jan. 17—down from 2,065 on Jan. 16, 2,101 Jan. 15 and 2,169 Jan. 14, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency (HCA). The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care decreased by four to 538, a slight reduction from Jan. 10’s record of 547.