Dr. Matt Zahn, MD
Medical Director of the Communicable Disease Control Division at the Orange County Health Care
and
Dr.
Jasjit Singh, MD
Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, CHOC Children’s.
April 22
nd
AAP OC Chapter meeting can be watched
here
.
Some key points:
The real number of
cases may be 80 fold the reported
BUT still
only 4 % of the public.
Currently
we are all
very susceptible to infection.
- OC has done a GREAT job relative to the rest of CA at curbing our numbers. See image below on LA County numbers OR listen/read the meeting notes.
- We are at the flat part of the curve and will be here for months to come.
- Vaccine will be available only in 12-18 mos
- Testing is still substandard in many ways and should be improving as months unfold.
- CHOC in Orange has NO in patients admitted with COVID19. CHOC Mission had 2. (Different numbers than what was reported earlier but still consistent with the fact that children are not largely carrying the infection or contracting it).
