Orange County’s Coronavirus Hospitalizations Continue to Drop

A registered nurse cares for COVID-19 patients in a makeshift ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., on Jan. 21, 2021. Mario Tama/Getty Images

SANTA ANA—Orange County reported 361 new cases of COVID-19 and 33 additional deaths on Feb. 14, bringing the county’s totals to 242,505 cases and 3,577 fatalities since the pandemic began.

Hospitalizations due to the coronavirus continued to fall sharply in Orange County, declining from 839 Feb. 13 to 790, with the number of coronavirus patients in intensive care dropping from 270 to 257, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.