Orange County Coronavirus Totals: 42,854 Total Positive Cases

Ashley Ludwig
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ORANGE COUNTY, CA — Twenty additional Orange County residents have died as a result of COVID-19 as of Friday, raising the county's death toll to 789, the county Health Care Agency says.

On Friday, 683 coronavirus cases were reported, raising the cumulative total to 42,854, according to Orange County Health Care Agency officials.

Orange County officials report their statistics are now up to date as of Wednesday.

Of the 20 people reported who lost their lives due to coronavirus, 13 were residents who were infected through community spread. Seven of those who died were were skilled nursing facility residents.

The ages of those who have died as a result of coronavirus are as follows:

  • Age 0 to 17: 0 deaths

  • Age 18 to 24: 3 deaths

  • Age 25 to 34: 12 deaths

  • Age 35 to 44: 25 deaths

  • Age 45 to 54: 70 deaths

  • Age 55 to 64: 102 deaths

  • Age 65 to 74: 160 deaths

  • Age 75 to 84: 174 deaths

  • Age 85 and up: 243 deaths

Of those who have died, 440 are men and 348 are women.

Age Since the pandemic began, 300 of the victims who died were skilled nursing facility resident and one was homeless. No jail inmate has died as a result of coronavirus.

Hospitalizations continue to drop, according to reports. The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in the county's hospitals dipped from 440 Wednesday to 436 on Friday, according to the HCA, while intensive care patients ticked up slightly, from 152.

Still, according to the figures released by the state, the rate of residents testing positive for COVID-19 in the county decreased to 7.2 percent.

The state's desired threshold is 8 percent.

The county's positive case rate per 100,000 residents increased to 121.7 which remains far higher than the California Department of Public Health threshold of 25 per 100,000 residents.

The change in the three-day average of hospitalized patients dropped to 5.9%, which is lower than the state's threshold.

The county has 31% of intensive care unit beds available, which is better than the state's 20% threshold. And the county's hospitals also have 56% of their ventilators available, higher than the state standard of 25%.

Orange County remains on the State of California Monitoring Watch List.

The county reported that 518,065 COVID-19 tests have been conducted, including 13,506 reported Thursday. There have been 32,984 estimated recoveries.

Multiple cities in Orange County are seeing coronavirus totals upwards of 2,000 cases and more. Wherever there is a higher number of cases, you will see a higher death rate, Dr. Clayton Chau of the Orange County Health Care Agency says.

Cities with the highest case counts include: Santa Ana with over 8,000 cases, Anaheim with over 7,000 cases, and Garden Grove with over 2,200 cases.

In cities where there are higher case-counts, you have people living closer together, and lower income families, Chau said in Thursday's meeting.

"We are paying attention to Anaheim and Santa Ana" and the large numbers within those cities, Chau says.

Across Orange County, here is the coronavirus case count by city, for Friday:

  • Aliso Viejo - 302 Total Cases

  • Anaheim - 7306 Total Cases

  • Brea - 393 Total Cases

  • Buena Park - 1213 Total Cases

  • Costa Mesa - 1405 Total Cases

  • Coto de Caza - 31 Total Cases

  • Cypress - 453 Total Cases

  • Dana Point - 203 Total Cases

  • Fountain Valley - 409 Total Cases

  • Fullerton - 1930 Total Cases

  • Garden Grove - 2323 Total Cases

  • Huntington Beach - 1898 Total Cases

  • Irvine - 1312 Total Cases

  • La Habra - 1070 Total Cases

  • La Palma - 133 Total Cases

  • Ladera Ranch - 130 Total Cases

  • Laguna Beach - 150 Total Cases

  • Laguna Hills - 250 Total Cases

  • Laguna Niguel - 324 Total Cases

  • Laguna Woods - 46 Total Cases

  • Lake Forest - 687 Total Cases

  • Los Alamitos - 137 Total Cases

  • Midway City - 102 Total Cases

  • Mission Viejo - 642 Total Cases

  • Newport Beach - 934 Total Cases

  • Orange - 1967 Total Cases

  • Placentia - 759 Total Cases

  • Rancho Mission Viejo - 48 Total Cases

  • Rancho Santa Margarita - 273 Total Cases

  • Rossmoor - 55 Total Cases

  • San Clemente - 376 Total Cases

  • San Juan Capistrano - 346 Total Cases

  • Santa Ana - 8362 Total Cases

  • Seal Beach - 236 Total Cases

  • Silverado - 42 Total Cases

  • Stanton - 531 Total Cases

  • Trabuco Canyon - 163 Total Cases

  • Tustin - 1021 Total Cases

  • Villa Park - 43 Total Cases

  • Westminster - 794 Total Cases

  • Yorba Linda - 566 Total Cases

As local school officials prepare for classes to begin, county officials are tabulating the number of coronavirus cases by various age groups.

Though no children under 18-years-old have died of coronavirus since the pandemic began, children have been infected with the virus. In Orange County, as of Thursday, here are the numbers, by age, who have tested positive:

  • 414 children up to age 3 have been infected.

  • 567 in the 4-to-9-year-olds

  • 433 from 10 to 12 years old;

  • 418 among 13- to 14-year-olds;

  • 1,458 in the 15- to 18-year-olds

Many elementary schools are preparing applications for waivers from the county and state that would allow for in-person classroom teaching up to the sixth-grade level. The state has mandated that schools in counties on the watch list must employ distance learning until they get off the watch list.

This article originally appeared on the Orange County Patch