Six Coronavirus Patients in Intensive Care Unit

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (file photo)
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) is confirming four (4) additional cases of COVID-19 today. This makes 68 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County. Below are more details about the four (4) cases announced Sunday, March 29:
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Case #65—in their 70s and resides in the South County Unincorporated Areas, which include communities of Montecito, Toro Canyon, Summerland and the City of Carpinteria
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Case #66—in their 60s and resides in the North County Unincorporated Areas which include New Cuyama, Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, and City of Guadalupe
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Case #67—in their 40s and in the North County Unincorporated Areas which include New Cuyama, Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, and City of Guadalupe
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Case #68—in their 20s and resides in the City of Santa Maria
Although PHD has released the cities and areas where confirmed COVID-19 cases have occurred, it is critical that residents in all areas of the county stay at home and practice social distancing when performing essential tasks outside their home.
Of the 68 cases, 45 are recovering at home, eight (8) persons are recovering in a hospital, six (6) of which are in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), fourteen (14) have fully recovered, and one (1) is pending an update.
PHD is prioritizing thorough investigations for cases with exposures in healthcare and other congregate settings to identify persons who may have been exposed. Mandated social distancing measures are in place to slow the spread of the virus.
Update by Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
Coronavirus Cases Jumps to 64 Overnight
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) is confirming 17 additional cases of COVID-19 today. This makes 64 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County at this time. Below are more details about the 17 new cases:
- Case #48—in their 20s and resides in the South County Unincorporated Area
- Case #49—in their 50s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #50—in their 40s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #51—in their 40s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #52—in their 70s and resides in Santa Barbara
- Case #53—in their 40s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #54—in their 60s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #55—in their 60s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #56—in their 20s and resides in the South County Unincorporated Area
- Case #57—in their 60s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #58—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
- Case #59—in their 70s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #60—in their 60s and resides in Santa Barbara
- Case #61—in their 40s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #62—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
- Case #63—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
- Case #64—in their 20s and resides in Lompoc
Although PHD has released the cities and areas where confirmed COVID-19 cases have occurred, it is critical that residents in all areas of the county stay at home and practice social distancing when performing essential tasks outside their home.
Of the 64 cases, 47 are recovering at home, six (6) persons are recovering in a hospital, three (3) of which is in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and eleven (11) have fully recovered. PHD is prioritizing thorough investigations for cases with exposures in healthcare and other congregate settings to identify persons who may have been exposed. Mandated social distancing measures are in place to slow the spread of the virus.
By edhat staff
As of Friday afternoon, five people are hospitalized with two of them in the intensive care unit (ICU) as the total number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases increases to 47 in Santa Barbara County.
Public Health officials confirm a patient under 10-years-old is among the fifteen newly confirmed cases. Due to privacy restrictions, officials only stated the ages of the recent positive cases range from less than 10-years-old to 70's.
From the total 47 positive cases, 31 are recovering at home, 5 are hospitalized with 2 in ICU, and 11 are fully recovered. Of the fifteen new cases, 2 are in Santa Maria, 1 in the unincorporated area of Gaviota/Goleta, 2 in Goleta, 9 in Santa Barbara, and 1 in the unincorporated area of Montecito/Summerland/Carpinteria.
Below are more details about the fifteen (15) cases announced Friday, March 27:
• Case #33—in their 40s and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #34—in their 50s and resides in Santa Maria
• Case #35—between ages 10-19 and resides in Goleta
• Case #36—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #37—in their 70s and resides in the Unincorporated areas of the Goleta Valley and Gaviota
• Case #38—in their 40s and resides in Santa Maria
• Case #39—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #40—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #41—in their 30s and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #42—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #43—in their 20s and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #44—in their 20s and resides in Goleta
• Case #45—is younger than 10 years old and resides in Santa Barbara
• Case #46—in their 50s and resides in the Unincorporated areas, including communities of Montecito, Summerland, and the City of Carpinteria
• Case #47—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Director Van Do-Reynoso stated they expect to see these numbers increase in the days to come and urged residents to continue to stay home as much as possible and limit outings to essential tasks only.
"We are experiencing a significant uptick in new confirmed cases in the county. This is an expected development given the high infection rate. Fortunately, there are no fatalities," said Dr. Henning Ansorg, Santa Barbara County Public Health Officer.
Dr. Ansorg continued to state the turnaround time for COVID-19 testing has improved significantly, sometimes less than 24 hours in high priority situations. He clarified a high priority case as someone who has the potential to spread the virus, such as a nurse who works with a vulnerable population.
In response to a potential surge of patients at local hospitals, Do-Reynoso stating they are currently in communication with community and hospital partners putting together rough estimates and will have a model to share early next week.
Cottage Health System CEO Ron Werft sent a letter to staff confirming 23 patients were awaiting COVID-19 test results. Of those patients, nine are in critical condition and four negative-pressure social isolation units are established to handle COVID-19 cases, reports Nick Welsh of The Independent.
“We have now moved to high-level surge planning and made the decision today to use every opportunity inside the walls of our hospital to convert space for patient care,” wrote Werft.
It is unclear how many of those patients, if any, were included in the 15 new cases announced today. During the press conference, officials stated they were unaware of Cottage Health's numbers as the Public Health Department only reports confirmed cases.
As of Friday evening, Ventura County reported 83 positive COVID-19 cases and 3 deaths. The three deaths were patients in their 70's with pre-existing health conditions. Ventura County has tested 1,543 people to date.
San Luis Obispo County reports 59 cases with 0 deaths as of Friday morning.
The full press conference is available here.
[Editor's Note: This article has been edited with specific demographics of the new cases in Santa Barbara and updated numbers from Ventura County. ]
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Mar 28, 2020 02:31 PMI called. They claimed to be closed which is odd because they answered the phone and it’s a 24 hour gym
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Mar 28, 2020 02:19 PMThanks Alex
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Mar 28, 2020 03:09 PMHere’s where to report violations [email protected]
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Mar 30, 2020 08:43 AMPerhaps the owners or staff are giving it a deep cleaning.
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Mar 28, 2020 11:12 AMDid SBDPH really fail to alert the community to the North COunty TB case?SBNATURAL I agree with your main point, but I would like to see alink to substantiate that thanks.
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Mar 28, 2020 01:42 PMThe disconnect between what is actually going on on the ground and PH is deeply concerning. The shortage of tests, and moreover, the INSANE PROCESSING TIMES really beggar belief. This country and this state and our medical system are pathetic.
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Mar 28, 2020 03:13 PMIt’s been 15 days since my sister-in-law and niece returned from Madrid. Miraculously they are symptom free after being quarantined behind a plastic wall in half of their house. I’m so glad they were able to get out of Spain which has become a death trap since then as ~5,100 people died in the past 15 days.
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Mar 28, 2020 03:14 PMMy cousin from Oakland was studying abroad there. She is home safe now
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Mar 28, 2020 03:26 PMThat’s great news!
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Mar 28, 2020 08:29 PMGlad your family made it home safe, but using words like "death trap" is not accurate and only helps to spread panic. Vigilance yes, panic no.
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Mar 30, 2020 03:41 PMSpain population 47M. Number of confirmed cases 88K. Number of deaths 7.7K. This "death trap" has a fatality rate so far of 9% of cases or 0.016% of population. Hyperbole much?
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Mar 28, 2020 05:19 PMIt’s 64 cases now
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Mar 28, 2020 06:22 PMLike last weekend, I went for a bike ride for exercise. On State Street, Rite Aid, many of the frozen dessert and smoothie places, and some restaurants doing takeout were open. Otherwise it was a ghost street again. Again there were relatively few people at the oceanfront (Shoreline Beach Cafe was open for takeout) and fewer at the Ledbetter BBQ pits than last weekend but some tight groups of people. Both Wilcox and Elings had fewer people as well - though the sheep are still flagrantly violating social distancing :) Mission Park (aka Rose Garden) had a lot fewer people and not as much bunching . APS was closed at the Mission due to road work. So I walked my bike past the Mission dam/waterworks to get up to Mission Ridge to continue home. Overall not much traffic or people out with good signs of distancing.
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Mar 28, 2020 07:22 PMEastbeach: Thanks for your reports. I didn’t go anywhere today except to the garage to finally organize all the stuff my two college students brought back with them when they had to come home. It was like a tornado struck only on the inside.
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Mar 29, 2020 12:44 PMSG: Not a bad kind of tornado to have :) I need to clean up my garage to make a little quarantine area for incoming packages & mail, dry goods from the grocery, etc.
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Mar 29, 2020 01:26 AMDoes anyone think that public transportation is a bad idea yet? Cases are going up rapidly, seriously people HOW DO YOU THINK THIS IS HAPPENING!!!! people are not careful and when it comes to things like buses not stopping the DAMN BUS LINES that’s exactly how it’s spreading! Let’s stop being fools everyone! Stay at home!!! If there is a stat at home government order where the hell are you all going???
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Mar 29, 2020 03:00 AMAre these positives that are being reported the results from the 200 tests given last week!
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Mar 29, 2020 08:57 AMProbably. Our testing turnaround time is scary long.
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Mar 29, 2020 06:11 PM80% of deaths nationwide are in NYC, New Jersey, Detroit, New Orleans and Washington State. 15% of the nation's population, 80% of deaths. SB County has 64 cases. That's 1 case per 6640 persons. In NYC it's 1 case per 400 persons. It's the overcrowded slums like NYC that are the problem, not low density communities like SB County.
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Mar 30, 2020 07:59 AMHiding behind HIPAA in the name of privacy is a lie. You know that form you sign when you go to the doctor? It asks if it's okay to share your information. Of course, they add your other doctors but they also releases it to anyone that you approve of. So it.s pretty simple. Add a paragraph now to the form that is crisis specific. Nobody is looking for granular detail about a person. It's just basic facts to track, understand and prepare. Health officials know this. They're dodging.
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Mar 30, 2020 10:23 AMIt would be REALLY helpful to know if any of the infected, anywhere in the US, were practicing social distancing, and to what extent? I mean, are people doing all this distancing and cleaning and then still getting it? I'd like to know if everything I'm doing is actually helping or not.
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Mar 30, 2020 11:11 AMThe only thing of importance here - did Public Health chase down EVERYONE these patients have been in touch with? We don't need to know names, only that they've been quarantined. That's how Wuhan put a fast stop to the spread.
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Mar 30, 2020 03:37 PMTracing contacts is only useful at the beginning of pandemics. Now we are at the quarantining and distancing stage to try and flatten the curve. Just assume everyone else has it, and you don't want to get it. Act accordingly.
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Mar 30, 2020 03:05 PMHow about putting portable hand washing stations in front of grocery stores - and places people will still need to go for essentials?
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