18 COVID Positive Cases Remain in Main Jail
Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
June 13, 2022
The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are 37 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak with 19 inmates recovered and 18 active cases. Of the 37 identified cases, 9 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 28 are asymptomatic.
Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
June 10, 2022
The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are 26 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak with 18 inmates recovered and 8 active cases. One of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak required hospitalization and has since been cleared for return to the facility, 8 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 18 are asymptomatic.
Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
June 6, 2022
The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are 22 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak with 12 inmates recovered and 10 active cases. One of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 4 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 18 are asymptomatic.
On Saturday, May 28, 2022, Sheriff’s Office Custody staff and our Wellpath partners identified a COVID outbreak in the Northern Branch Jail (NBJ) Housing Unit E. There are 14 total cases associated with the NBJ outbreak, with 1 inmate released, 6 inmates recovered and 7 cases remaining in the facility. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 9 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 5 are asymptomatic.
Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
June 3, 2022
The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are currently 20 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 3 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 17 are asymptomatic.
On Saturday, May 28, 2022, Sheriff’s Office Custody staff and our Wellpath partners identified 7 COVID positive inmates at the Northern Branch Jail (NBJ) Housing Unit E. There are 14 total cases associated with the NBJ outbreak, with one inmate released and 13 cases remaining in the facility. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 9 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 5 are asymptomatic.
Source: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office
May 28, 2022
Sheriff’s Office Custody staff and our Wellpath partners have identified a COVID outbreak in the Main Jail. On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Custody Staff detected 12 COVID positive inmates in the Main Jail West housing module. On Friday, March 27, 2022, one additional COVID positive inmate was detected in the East housing area. All COVID positive inmates are continuously monitored by custody staff and Wellpath medical professionals. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 2 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 11 are asymptomatic.
As we identify COVID-19 positive inmates, they are moved into an area of the facility that has negative pressure cells. The remainder are placed together in small groups (cohorts) and isolated from other inmates and monitored by Wellpath for symptoms. Inmates with severe symptoms or who have underlying health conditions are transported to a hospital for evaluation and treatment, although none of the inmates in this outbreak have necessitated hospital transport. As a result of this outbreak and after consulting with County Public Health, visitation has been suspended. We are also coordinating with the Santa Barbara Court and the Public Defender’s Office to adjust court
appearances to minimize the spread of the virus through the movement of inmates.
The Sheriff’s Office has worked on a continual basis with our Wellpath and Public Health partners to address this outbreak as well as to establish and constantly re-evaluate plans for health safety within the Main Jail. Inmates are tested when they arrive in our custody and are housed separately from the general population during the initial 7 days of their stay. They are tested again before they are moved out of the quarantine area into other areas of the facility. During their stay, inmates are tested whenever they exhibit symptoms and whenever they might have been exposed to someone who has tested positive. The Sheriff’s Office continues to offer all three of the COVID-19 vaccines to all inmates as well as an incentive program where funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is used to award newly vaccinated inmates with $20 added to their commissary fund for full vaccination or $10 for a booster. Additionally, Wellpath has administered over 796 vaccinations at the Main Jail and Northern Branch Jail since the beginning of the pandemic.
All staff, both professional and sworn, who work in positions that have direct inmate contact are regularly tested and are required to wear an N95 mask while working. The Sheriff’s Office will provide regular updates on the status of this outbreak.
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May 29, 2022 06:00 AMThe same incentives should be given to stubborn employees as are given to stubborn inmates.
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May 29, 2022 07:15 AMIf you’ve held out this long as an employee… you really think $20 is going to sell you on it?
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May 29, 2022 09:05 AMJust a complete non story…thanks though!
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May 29, 2022 10:57 AMAgreed, non-news. Covid is endemic. We're all going to catch the variants, so let us all go on with Life and ignore the Fear mongering.
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May 30, 2022 02:56 AM"Inmates are tested when they arrive in our custody and are housed separately from the general population during the initial 7 days of their stay. "
I just hope recalcitrant Sheriff's dept. employees are not giving Covid to inmates. Can't imagine losing visitation to unvaccinated employees.
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May 30, 2022 06:38 AMVaccinated people are contracting and passing the new strains too. Non-news.
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Jun 07, 2022 11:14 AMSee what channelfog said...
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Jun 14, 2022 10:20 AMCause the vaccine is not a cure. Stop acting like it is
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Jun 14, 2022 10:36 AM"Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials, but it's also in real-world data." - CDC Director Rochelle Walensky FACT CHECK: even then there was no such data, either in the lab or real-word to backup that claim, and anything showing the contrary was using cherry picked data or incomplete information - nothing that would stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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May 30, 2022 11:39 AMEveryone I know who is contracting Covid is “vaccinated”, boosted, and doubly boosted. The person I know with the most severe symptoms is double boosted.
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Jun 04, 2022 09:35 AMGiving money to people commit crimes his insane
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Jun 04, 2022 04:26 PMWhoa! Wait a second…where are all the usual knee jerk downvotes for Duke and Channel? Are those people starting to realize what some of us knew about a year ago?
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Jun 06, 2022 08:59 PMBasic, if you dismissed or ignored any information contrary to your beliefs the past several years this IS new information. Don’t expect any apologies for the ill will they wished on the unvaccinated though.
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Jun 06, 2022 08:03 PMAren’t they 100% vaccinated?
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Jun 06, 2022 10:04 PMWhat does “vaccinated” even mean at this point? A 2nd booster within the last 6 weeks…?
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Jun 06, 2022 11:53 PMNot the deputies.
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Jun 07, 2022 06:30 AMHave you noticed that the vaccinated are contracting the Omicron variants at similar rates as the un-vaxed? It is unrealistic to expect any vaccine to be able to keep up with new variants.
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Jun 07, 2022 08:50 AMIn some cases, specifically those 5 months after the booster(s), positivity rates 'can' be higher. See slide 3, broken down by proportion of tests. https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.jsp In CA's own data, the boosted are showing twice the positivity rate as the un-boosted but vaccinated. https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#postvax-status
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Jun 14, 2022 10:22 AMIt’s not a cure, stop treating it like such. It is supposed to lessen the risks. Do you not have google?
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Jun 14, 2022 10:44 AMAnd it never was. A 'cure' is something given after a condition/disease/infection to relieve the patient of the symptoms/disease. A 'vaccine' is something taken prior to prevent the condition/disease/infection from occurring in the first place. CDC's definition of 'vaccine' as-of early 2021: "a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease." it NOW reads: "A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases."
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Jun 14, 2022 04:57 PM@10:22
He has Google, but he also has a really severe case of confirmation bias and Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
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Jun 07, 2022 07:18 AMAll the new cases of Covid that I know about since my last post are “vaccinated “, boosted, and double boosted people. Why is it still called a vaccine when after getting four shots you still get sick and spread it to others?
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Jun 07, 2022 08:40 AMIf you described the shots benefits (accurately) to people in 2019 they would say 'that's not a vaccine', it would sound more like a preventative treatment to alleviate symptoms. In a better world, many would be spending some serious internal reflection time on all the ill will, hate, and blame they spewed towards the unvaccinated and vaccine hesitant the past year and half - all unwarranted and unnecessarily divisive.
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Jun 07, 2022 09:27 AMIt’s unfortunate that the current vaccines do not stop transmission. But they do significantly reduce the need for hospitalization. Remember back at the beginning when the goal was to “flatten the curve,” so the hospital workers would not be overwhelmed? The vaccines achieve that, and that is no small feat. We must not take our medical personnel for granted.
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Jun 07, 2022 09:36 AMAHCHOOOO - exactly. We had a recent spate of Covid here in my area of Goleta. I feel like everyone I know either got it or someone in their home did. I had it. It was no fun, but that was mostly due to the sheer panic of having something I knew could kill me, given a health condition I had. I was mildly sick for a few days and then fine. People I knew that weren't vaccinated were not so lucky and and some (only the unvaxxed ones) are still suffering what is described now as "long covid." To say the vaccines did nothing is asinine. They likely saved my life. Despite living in close quarters with my family, I'm the only one who got it in my house. Not so with my unvaxxed buddy, whose entire house was infected. It's not rocket science to see how effective the vaccine was at stopping me from spreading it too easily and keeping me out of the hospital.
And no, I will never "apologize" to those who flat out REFUSED to do anything at all to help stop the spread. They're the ones who gave it to me and now they're the ones who are unfortunately still sick. I feel bad for them, but hey..... they had plenty of chances to avoid this.
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Jun 07, 2022 11:12 AMVaccine hesitant - you mean anti-vax far-right extremists who thought it was ok to drink bleach and shoot up hydroxychloroquine? We didn't have vaccine hesitant people posting here - only people with politically driven agenda's spewing false information about vaccines - like yourself.
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Jun 07, 2022 11:13 AMUm, do we know how vaccines work? Vaccine effectiveness depends on the vaccine. It also depends on timing. Effectiveness fades. Much like the effectiveness of the flu shot - where researchers "guess" what kind of strain will be dominant each season (sometimes they are right, sometime they are not right, sometimes there are more than one strain)...effectiveness varies.
For one thing, there are multiple types of vaccines for COVID, plus the immunity you get from getting COVID. In addition, effectiveness of the vaccine fades over time. Finally, we have had multiple variants - a vaccine that was designed for Alpha now has to contend with Delta (more contagious), Omicron (even more contagious), and newer Omicron variants (even MORE contagious). (Never mind the individual's personal immune system and particular dose).
Initial studies DID show that the vaccine prevented spread...of an earlier variant of COVID. Now you've got newer variants, and we are finding that some people test positive COVID with no symptoms, others have symptoms but don't test positive. Some people get sick and test negative for DAYS until they are on the mend. Yeah, "what can we learn from people who have never had COVID?" Well, I dunno. I've never had COVID...or have I? I mean, who knows if I'm an asymptomatic carrier...
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Jun 07, 2022 01:33 PMStill regurgitating that "drink bleach" hoax.... and people are supposed to take your comments as serious, fact-based, and free from politically driven false information.... I have a bridge for sale if anyone is interested.
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Jun 07, 2022 09:58 AMMy daughter was required to get a booster very recently, she developed a side effect to the shot, and she ended up getting Covid anyway. We are hoping the side effect subsides soon.
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Jun 07, 2022 11:06 AM"A side effect"
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Jun 07, 2022 11:11 AMShasta - Why (or where) was it required for your daughter to get a booster? Work?
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Jun 07, 2022 09:03 PMMore info required.
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Jun 07, 2022 01:15 PMI’m not going to get into the specific details except to say that in order to participate in a certain event all participants were required to be vaccinated and fully boosted. It was shortly after getting boosted that the unexpected reaction occurred. The reaction is manageable with medication, and we are hoping that with time the effects will diminish. The cherry on top is that the booster didn’t prevent covid. I’m not an anti vaxxer as it pertains to normal vaccines, but for my daughter to get an injection called a vaccine that didn’t prevent getting disease while giving her an extended side effect is a game changer.
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Jun 07, 2022 01:25 PMJust be thankful she was boosted, or that "side effect" from her infection might have been much more serious.
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Jun 07, 2022 01:28 PM@1:25 "It was shortly after getting boosted that the unexpected reaction occurred" i.e. not from her infection but from the shot.
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Jun 07, 2022 01:29 PMIt was shortly after getting boosted that she got infected.
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Jun 07, 2022 05:31 PMThat's not what Shasta said @1:29.
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Jun 07, 2022 01:37 PMThe amateur virology idiots are out in force again. No vaccine has ever provided 100% protection against infection, and 50% used to be considered a great result. The purpose of vaccination is to reduce the transmission and severity of disease, which all the COVID vaccines do remarkably effectively, despite all the right-wing propaganda spewing.
Since very infectious diseases like COVID spread exponentially, even a small drop in the infection rate translates into a huge benefit to the populace overall.
Get vaccinated. Get boosted. Or stay stupid.
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Jun 07, 2022 05:30 PMNearly fully vaccinated Singapore (among many other highly vaccinated populations) would like a word about your claim the current Covid vaccines do "remarkably effectively[sic]" at reducing transmission. With all the information and data out now, that is common knowledge not to be the case. I question where you're getting your information, because the CDC, White House, WHO ,et. al. don't even claim they're effective at reducing transmission anymore - simply effective at reducing symptoms (so they say).
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Jun 07, 2022 05:36 PMIs the primary series of a COVID-19 vaccine effective against omicron?
“The simplest answer would be [the vaccines] are holding very well in terms of protecting from severe disease and hospitalization and worse,” says Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci, an immunologist and professor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California. “[But] they are not holding as well at protection from infection.”
https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/omicron-and-vaccines-your-questions-answered
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Jun 07, 2022 05:42 PMStraight from the CDC - "Current vaccines protect against severe illness, hospitalizations, and deaths due to infection with the Omicron variant." No mention of protecting against infection.... https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/omicron-variant.html
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Jun 07, 2022 05:48 PMKinda hard to trust anything about the vaccines coming from someone who thinks they are the same as a covid "treatment."
"Because if they set up treatment sites Big Pharma couldn't get EUA for their shots (no EUA if alternate treatments are available). It was all about the money, not our actual health." --- https://www.edhat.com/news/california-streamlines-access-to-covid-19-testing-and-treatment
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Jun 07, 2022 05:49 PMhttps://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.jsp slide 4, why would people with 3 shots post five months, reveal 37.8% of positive tests while only making up 30.7% of test taken. If the vaccine was effective at reducing transmission, the % of postive tests should be lower the to % of tests taken. I think it's about time people got off their high horse in shaming the unvaccinated and vaccine hesitate and blaming them for our covid ills, as the data shows that is clearly misplaced.
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Jun 07, 2022 02:02 PM13 people in my circle have come down with Covid in the last ~2 weeks:
- 5 were double boosted
- 7 were vaccinated and/or single boosted
- 1 was unvaccinated
One of the doubled boosted people developed the worst symptoms. The unvaccinated person was no sicker or better than anyone in the group they were in. For five people the second booster did not prevent them from getting Covid. All have recovered just fine, thankfully. They all report that it was worse than a cold , but not as bad as the flu. 7 of the people were 20-30s, everyone else was 50 or older.
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Jun 07, 2022 02:06 PM"All have recovered just fine, thankfully. " They are lucky - Covid hospitalizations are up in 45 states.
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Jun 07, 2022 02:25 PMYour "circle", judging from previous comments, seems to be a bunch of people averse to public health measures like masking in gyms and other settings. No surprise, given the infectivity of the later omicron variants, that these people would get infected.
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Jun 07, 2022 02:26 PMLooks like a few posters are way off topic, but hey - everyone’s apparently got a Covid story to tell? Let’s not panic.
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Jun 07, 2022 02:39 PMBASIC - it's an article on COVID. How are we offtopic?
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Jun 07, 2022 02:56 PMSpeaking of COVID, here's an interesting article/data set:
https://usafacts.org/articles/covid-excess-deaths-causes-2021/
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Jun 07, 2022 03:55 PMWow! Extremely rare that you're posting factual information on COVID.
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