Orange County’s COVID-19 Weekly Averages Jump Up

Esperanza Guevara, 31, receives a Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles on March 25, 2021. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County’s weekly averages for COVID-19 doubled on July 20, but hospitalizations decreased.

The county’s case rate per 100,000 residents increased from 2.6 to 4.9 and the test positivity rate jumped from 1.8 percent to 3.3 percent. The county’s Health Equity Quartile rate, which measures the disadvantaged communities hardest hit by the pandemic, increased from 1.9 percent to 3.4 percent.