AnonymousSource: Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department has requested over 200,000 at-home COVID-19 antigen test kits from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a federal healthcare partner. As of January 21, nearly 57,000 test kits have been delivered and will be distributed via community partners countywide. The remaining kits are expected to arrive in the coming weeks.
“Through the receipt of these initial test kit shipments, we are on the road to community members having regular access to free, at-home test kits,” shared County Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso. “It is only through the many partners that have agreed to assist in test kit distribution that we are able to ensure equity of access for all of our Santa Barbara County communities.”
Approximately 35 community partners, including those serving populations at greatest risk from adverse outcomes related to COVID-19 have been allocated test kits. Partners include community-based organizations, cities, agricultural and public housing providers, service providers for persons experiencing homelessness, and more.
Community distribution events will begin taking place as test kits are given to partners in the next few days. Sites open to the public will be listed at https://publichealthsbc.org/testing. The 2-1-1 Call Center will be available to direct persons who do not have access to the internet as sites are opened.
County Public Health will host a one-day distribution event open to the public in Santa Maria this Saturday, January 22, 2022 from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. If supplies run out before 4 p.m., the event will end early. The event will take place at the Santa Maria Health Care Center located at 2115 Centerpointe Pkwy, Santa Maria, CA 93455.
For information about current testing opportunities, vaccination events, and COVID-19 response locally, visit https://publichealthsbc.org or call 2-1-1.
Maybe the middle-aged guys who wear masks under their nose will finally stop trying to commit manslaughter of those of us who live alone and regardless of suseptability have to pick up medications at drugstores and food at grocery stores. They run around with no underwear and their pants open. Not impressive, just disgusting.
Is this part of the democratic finally passed- trillion dollar boost economy bill what a joke
Maybe it’s time to stop testing. I know several people now who tested positive and never developed symptoms and no one around them tested positive. Hopefully this is Covid’s last hurrah and all the extreme paranoia that goes with it.
Maybe someone who knows nothing of virology shouldn’t speculate.
I don’t think mentioning health considerations for others will resonate with someone who’s only concern seems to be having to wear a mask in a gym.
Glass houses Shasta, must be nice to be blissfully out of touch. I know a number of people who have been real sick with it the past couple of weeks. Schools have been empty.
Shasta, we still need to curb spread in order to prevent or slow the creation of further detrimental variants. Odds of a new variant are determined by how long the virus survives, collectively. The fewer people we spread to via testing for positivity and quarantining regardless of symptomatic status, and also the more of us that are vaccinated thus preventing severe disease from running rampant in our individual bodies, the sooner we will get out of this mess. Stopping testing does nothing to that goal.
Luv – manslaughter?????
GT I actually have kids in school. Many friends of them tested positive and are out due to the mandatory quarantine period. The vast majority are symptomless. The few with symptoms were very mild ones which resemble a mild cold. One vaxxed person got sick enough to have to stay home with flu like symptoms.
I hope the people you know recover fully and quickly.
Omicron seems to have breezed through all defenses, and fortunately it appears to be mild.
Maybe someone with no knowledge of virology shouldn’t keep speculating.
CHIP – “Given these facts, what is the point of all the restrictions?” to reduce the likelihood of infection as much as possible. Mind blowing, eh?
“A vaccine mandate that has little effectiveness in slowing Omnicron transmission?” – maybe, but it’s HIGHLY effective at reducing severe reactions/hospitalizations/death from covid. People having mild symptoms is not the concern. The concern here is people dying alone in hospitals with tubes jammed down their lungs. The vax significantly reduces that.
But yeah…. let’s just do nothing, right?
LUVADUCK – “They run around with no underwear and their pants open. ” Huh????
3:48 – Another blissfully unconscientious opinion from someone with no knowledge of virology.
9:32 – what’s so funny about providing free covid tests to the public?
OGSB – “The fear of Santa Barbara…. creating a new Covid mutation” was never mentioned or feared by anyone at anytime I don’t think. When people say “we still need to curb spread” to avoid creating variants, they’re talking about society in general.
Bill Maher just came out with a new performance addressing covid. His piece includes some good humor and it represents the emerging new outlook on covid.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/22/bill_maher_i_dont_want_to_live_in_your_mask_paranoid_world_anymore.html
Chip – ah yes the esteemed virologist, Dr. Maher. His knowledge factual facts and general factualness when it comes to medical science is simply factuistical! Facts.
With all the truthyness of alternative facts from realclearpolitics.
If a self identified “liberal” like Bill Maher has come to the outlook he expressed in his recent performance, see link in my post below, then what are the implications? It’s not as easy to lump everyone who is fed up with covid restrictions into simple stereotypes anymore. It seems like a lot of people are quietly fed up with masks and rules but are afraid to say so publicly. The enthusiastic applause from Bill’s audience certainly suggests that is the case. However, those who share Bill’s perspective are likely to express their frustration when they vote this November. The times they are a changin…