Officials say the recent spike was due in part to reports from backlogged test results. The county reported 1,028 additional cases Monday, 1,013 of which were from specimens collected June 20 to July 3; the others were collected before June 19.The county’s positivity rate has also skyrocketed in recent weeks.
The surge in new cases and the recent rollback of business reopenings prompted Supervisor Michelle Steel, who had previously repeatedly questioned the county health officer’s decision to mandate masks, to appeal to residents to wear a face covering. Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said in a statement that the department has to be practical when considering enforcement of face coverings in the sections of the county where deputies patrol. Officials said the sheriff is not taking an adversarial approach to the governor’s orders, but is operating with limited resources.
While police in Irvine can cite people who refuse to wear face coverings under a city order, officers have not found it to be necessary, said Sgt. Karie Davies.
Orange County is the Florida of California
Tell them to stay away from NorCal!
This has been a problem in plain sight
Thanks to these guys Disneyland will take longer to reopen
20-60million Americans are diagnosed with the flu every year, when we pass those numbers maybe we can talk about wearing masks...maybe
🖕🏽The OC
Nice try! The masks don't really work plus while there may be more cases the death rate has dropped dramatically! 'CDC: Official U.S. COVID Death Count Has Plunged 88% Since Mid-April'
TYPO: “But many are skill skeptical.”
WearTheDamnMask society could survive without you but could you survive without society?
Must be full of republicans 🤦🏾♂️
They are eating and drinking. Are they supposed to wear a mask while doing that?
sueettaparks I do think people have educated themselves on the plandemic from an early start! Remember people protesting to open up and then it became a anarchists movement?
Guns, Bibles and for-profit healthcare won’t save them.
Name a county after Trump and what do you expect
That's America. Free country full of crazy americains who do not care about their fellow americains. America is a selfish country and that is the way americans want it. I respect that as long as they stay in their country.
So cold... so good
A mask is a virus sponge quit being morons and understand a mask won’t do anything for you unless it is a n95
Because it’s fcking Orange County
Deaths are declining but no one reports that.
You can thank the protesters, rioters, and looters for the increase in cases and ruining it for the rest of us. And they have been continuously gathering and spreading the virus and governments and media don't call it out.
Reopening canceled/cut back, surge in cases, ICUs at or near capacity, 130,000+ deaths, thank a trumpanzee. TyphoidTrump
Idiots.
Freedoms or security, what do you prefer ?
Life behind the Orange Curtain
'Many in Orange County are idiots.' Fixed it for you.
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