Orange County’s COVID-19 Surge Expected to Continue Into New Year

A hospital worker walks equipment into an emergency triage tent set up outside of Kaiser Permanente's Orange County Medical Center in Irvine, Calif., on Dec. 11, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Orange County health officials say they expect an upswing of COVID-19 cases to continue into the New Year.

“We anticipate a continuing surge into January and are planning accordingly,” University of California–Irvine (UCI) Medical Center spokesman John Murray told The Epoch Times via email.