Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) reported 20 additional COVID-19 cases on Wednesday bringing the total to 1,540.
Of the twenty new cases, allwere located within the community and not the outbreak at the Federal Prison in Lompoc.
Of the total 1,540 cases, 570 are within the community with 457 cases fully recovered. There are currently 26 hospitalizations with 10 in the intensive care unit (ICU).
The county is reporting a total of 14,483 tests within the county with 12,835 providing negative results.
More details on each case can be found at publichealthsbc.org.
Cottage Health Numbers
Below is a status update as of May 21, 2020.
· Cottage Health is caring for a total of 234 patients across all campuses.
· 183 are acute care patients; 190 acute care beds remain available.
· In surge planning, capacity is identified for adding 270 acute care beds.
· Of the 183 acute care patients, 10 patients are on ventilators. 67 ventilators remain available (adult, pediatric and neonatal ventilators).
· Of the 183 acute care patients, 9 are in isolation with COVID-19 symptoms; 5 are confirmed COVID-19 positive.
· Of 9 patients in isolation, 3 patients are in critical care.
· From May 11-17:
- 1,528 COVID-19 laboratory tests were ordered and collected by Cottage Health.
- Results: 21 positive, 1,457 negative, 50 pending.
- Results take up to 4 days.
Does anyone know that the original manufacturer of the RTq-pcr tests says they should not, solely, be used for diagnostic purposes?
And here’s a bit from the CDC document about the test (be alarmed):
“Detection of viral RNA not only aids in the diagnosis of illness but also provides epidemiological and
surveillance information.”
Thats right surveillance…let that sit in your nostrils for a while…
There’s your spike.
Likely from the mask protestors.
Santa Barbara, we had 1 case. Sound the alarms, shut everything down. Shelter in place for years!
I give the Santa Barbara Health care community an “A” for how well they have handled and advised this situation. Comparing our team to the shenanigans and crazy town issues in other counties across the U.S.? We’re quite fortunate. If only they could add a detailed report on the severity of outcomes. Categorize headache, body ache, sore throat, etc. and longevity for each case. As we all know, viral infections are different for different people lasting from 1 day to weeks. Lumping it all together in just a “recovered” bucket leaves out way too much information on how to best move forward.
Yes John, if you click the link it will show the city of Santa Barbara had 1.
Yes, Shasta. Unfortunately for those who realized this, we were penalized by the majority in this county, and throughout California, that is was and still think it is a death sentence. To think this wrecked our freedoms, way of life, businesses, and economy makes me shake my head in disgust at the government’s overreach.
I am still trying to understand how so many people don’t get the difference between “cases” and “deaths.” It doesn’t matter if the entire population of the United States was tested positive for the virus as long as the death rate remains at the level it has. If we exclude the twin states of New York and New Jersey, which account for at least 40% of the death total, the country has less than a 2% death rate and 3% if we include those two states. And about half of all deaths nationally have been in nursing facilities.
@ DTOM: Which is why I will not allow anyone in my family to get tested and why Chemicalsuperfreak sarcastically commented a couple of weeks ago on another EH thread something to the effect that “The government thanks you for your kind contribution to our tracking and surveillance database.” And I don’t think many people realize that the CDC is a heavily biased, left-leaning bureaucracy, with a history of failures and not admitting mistakes it has made.
The majority of those who tested positive in the prison have been asymptomatic. I think the Lompoc prison outbreak will become an informative case study because everyone is being tested and we can see the full picture of how the virus impacts a population sample. https://lompocrecord.com/news/local/lompoc-prison-confirms-792-total-covid-19-cases-additional-death-reported-in-lompoc/article_dac182a5-3474-5398-96a8-3df5748f63e1.html
Thomas John: This is the official government publication on testing. Read the last sentence on Page 4, “Principles of the Procedure” and make your own decision about the how the information collected on your RNA can be used and stored in a database. https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Let’s see how stable we are after LA shows up for Memorial Day. I hope we stay that way…
Low cases days everyone screams out loud. High cases days everyone stays quiet. Except yesterday, its been a steady 15-20 cases for the past 4-5 days.