Orange County Officials Defend Hotels As COVID-19 Care Sites

Orange County Officials Defend Hotels As COVID-19 Care Sites
Residents of Laguna Woods Village retirement community, who live close to a hotel that will be used to house transient COVID-19 patients, cheer during a campaign event in Laguna Woods, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2010. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
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LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (CNS) - Orange County officials on April 2 defended their use of hotels to house some transients ill with COVID-19 in the coming weeks, saying it is better to quarantine them in a safe space rather than let them wander the streets risking infection to others.

Laguna Woods officials have objected to the county renting out the 138-bed Ayres Hotel at 24341 El Toro Road, in a community where more than 80 percent of residents are 65 and older and are considered among the most at risk of dying from the CCP virus.

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