It could be next summer before Orange County reaches the least restrictive tier in California’s COVID-19 monitoring system, and it likely will not happen until two-thirds of the community gets vaccinated against the disease, according to Orange County Health Care Agency Director Dr. Clayton Chau.
The system’s yellow tier requires a county measurement of less than one case of COVID-19 per 100,000 people and less than 2 percent testing positivity rate, as well as a health equity metric. Orange County is now in the red tier, the second tier in the system.
