Edhat Staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) is confirming eleven (11) additional cases of COVID-19 today. This makes 99 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County. Due to the volume of confirmed cases being reported, PHD will begin reporting cases in aggregate. Below are more details about the 11 cases announced Tuesday, March 31:
Ages of new confirmed cases reported:
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Locations of new cases reported:
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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 99 cases, 57 are recovering at home, 13 persons are recovering in a hospital,11 of which are in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 22 have fully recovered, and 7 are pending an update.
PHD is prioritizing 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.
(For a full list of ages and locations of confirmed patients, visit https://publichealthsbc.org/)
As of Monday evening, the total number of coronavirus (COVID-19) patients increased to 88 including 10 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) confirmed 20 new cases since Sunday evening. The ages of the new cases range from teens to over 70. Overall there are 14 people hospitalized with 10 patients in the ICU. There are 49 patients recovering at home, 19 fully recovered, and 6 are pending an update.
“The Increase of numbers is very typical of a virus that spreads quickly from person to person. We expected a doubling of cases within three days and that is almost exactly what we are seeing.” said Dr. Henning Ansorg, Santa Barbara County Public Health Officer.
Below are the full details of the 20 new cases:
- Case #69—in their 60s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #70—in their 50s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #71—in their 40s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #72—in their 50s and resides in Orcutt
- Case #73—in their 60s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #74—in their 40s and resides in the Lompoc Area, including the communities of Mission Hills and Vandenberg Village
- Case #75—over 70 years old and resides in North County unincorporated areas including Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, New Cuyama, and Guadalupe
- Case #76—in their 40s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #77—between the ages of 10-19 and resides in the Lompoc Area, including the communities of Mission Hills and Vandenberg Village
- Case #78—in their 50s and resides in the Lompoc Area, including the communities of Mission Hills and Vandenberg Village
- Case #79—in their 60s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #80—in their 60s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #81—over 70 years old and resides in North County unincorporated areas including Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, New Cuyama, and Guadalupe
- Case #82—over 70 years old and resides in North County unincorporated areas including Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, New Cuyama, and Guadalupe
- Case #83—in their 50s and resides in Santa Maria
- Case #84—in their 20s and resides in North County unincorporated areas including Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, New Cuyama, and Guadalupe
- Case #85—in their 50s and resides in North County unincorporated areas including Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, New Cuyama, and Guadalupe
- Case #86—in their 60s and resides in North County unincorporated areas including Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, New Cuyama, and Guadalupe
- Case #87—in their 50s and resides in Santa Barbara
- Case #88—in their 20s and resides in Santa Maria
There are currently 5 cases in Lompoc, 6 in Orcutt, 26 in Santa Barbara, 29 in Santa Maria, 2 in Goleta, 2 in Santa Ynez Valley, 9 in Montecito/Summerland.Carpinteria, 1 in Gaviota, and 8 in the unincorporated areas of North County.
Dr. Ansorg went on to state the increase in numbers of local infections corresponds with the patterns seen in the rest of the nation and even worldwide. The only definitive factor that makes a substantive difference is how much community members stay physically isolated from one another, he said.
Additionally, Dr. Ansorg went on to scold residents who are not taking this seriously after witnessing people in his own neighborhood hosting large gatherings.
“If you are meeting up with local family or friends, I urge you to discontinue these behaviors. Discontinue gatherings immediately, they are not safe at this time and can lead to the unintentional spread of illness,” said Dr. Ansorg.
Due to the infectious nature of COVID-19, PHD states they have been planning over the weekend and came up with scenarios of what to expect for the near future as it relates to illnesses, hospitalizations and healthcare needs in Santa Barbara County. This information has yet to be provided.
In Ventura County, there have been 4 deaths with 28 hospitalizations. Overall the county has 126 cases with 106 of them active.
San Luis Obispo is reporting 77 cases with 7 hospitalizations and 43 active cases.
The full press conference is available here.
Can someone from Edhat check the numbers ? 49 recovering at home, 14 in hospital and 19 recovered isn’t 88; it’s 82. I’ll write to SBC public health too.
Time to hunker down. It’s going to get real bad real fast.
Just stay the f home people.
Eh, I wasn’t saying it wasn’t a problem in SB. I was asking why TF all of the new cases confirmed yesterday were North County except one.
I saw a bunch of IV girls this morning, a fairly big group of 6-8 walking around El-Collegio without a care in the world, literally arm in arm. When will these idiots learn? Youth is wasted on the young.
It IS IV… Possible that they live together anyway. Or they’re just dumb teenagers with no adult supervision and you’re 100% correct!
Bro… Just dial it back a smidge. We totally get it, but ugg with all the same posts already.
Question: are Public Health Officials tracing every contact made by the unfortunate patients? Wuhan achieved fast flattening of curve by going after EVERY person in contact with someone with Covid-19. If Public Health can’t reveal because of Hippo oath, then can we encourage patients to “come out” as did Tom Hanks, Jackson Brown, Chris Cuomo and other celebrities – so that we can all check to see if we might have been exposed? Secrecy by Public Health is NOT a good practice in a pandemic!
Selecting who gets ventilators based on age or disability or religion or color of skin, or social status, is against the law. Civil rights kick in here.
I’m playing Devil’s advocate; in an emergency, who gets the ventillator? Is it first come, first serve? In the military, and in all field medicine, you have triage. When supplies are low or minimal, you have to decide who is most likely to make it, and that’s who you prioritize. So does the Combat Medic work on the guy who’s leg is blown off below the knee, or the guy with a hole through his chest? It seems hyperbolic, but the supply situation is just that right now. And unfortunately in triage, some of the decisions violate the letter of the law of our civil rights.
THIS IS WHY YOU NEED TO STAY HOME!!!!!
Nothing is “shifting” anywhere, this is only the beginning. It will explode in South County too, not enough people are taking social distancing seriously. Give it a week or two.
9:53: You must have gone to college or something. Civil rights, schmizzle rights. It’s jungle law now….protect yourself, protect your family, and protect your property. Above all, remain calm.
Also, and this is a BIG one; you mentioned your civil “rights”. Do you know what the co-requesite of “rights” are? Responsibility. You CANNOT have rights without responsibility. Such as, in the case of this pandemic, your social and civic RESPONSIBILITY to abide by health directives in times of a public health crisis. Then you can discuss your civil “rights” as it comes to life saving measures, as provided by said society.
Trevor Noah interviewed CA Governor Gavin Newsom. 16 hours ago. We are **so lucky** to have our intelligent, capable, calm Governor. Newsom talks about renaming it “physical distancing” and what happened with ventilators shipped to CA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgb5TftaRE
That’s a bold statement; I’d LOVE to see some citations for that “fact”. As I’ve mentioned in pervious posts, the age of the people is a correlation (and a strong one at that), but NOT the cause. The cause is the fact that MOST mainstream, young people in this country have never had their way of life threatened before. Its always “someone else will take care of it”. Older people have lived through WWII and Korea, and got drafted into Vietnam. But since then, the US has been on top. And attitudes of young people that only READ about strife (if they’re taught at all, but a discussion about the efficacy of the American education system is a WHOLE other conversation), but never lived it is shaped by that fact. So they’re taking this situation with that same arrogance. Their bubble is being popped, and we ALL pay the consequences.
What is with this ‘South County Unincorporated’ zone that includes the incorporated city of Carpinteria? Come on Public Health! Be more granular in your reporting!
I’ll be back in 6 days to remind you of this so you can eat your words….
The number of cases would be valid if people with symptoms of COVID 19 were not still being refused testing. Shortness of breath, when it happens, deteriorates very quickly. Like standing too close to the edge at the Grand Canyon. When you get to the point of falling over, symptoms accelerate rapidly. And the person with low oxygen levels can’t think well enough to comprehend what is happening. All we can do, at that point, is wave bye bye.
Way to be positive. This virus sure has made people have nasty attitudes.
It isn’t about being “positive” Its about reality. When are people gonna wake up to this fact? Doctors and scientists have been warning people for almost a month now. But we were too afraid of “social distancing” and being inconvenienced. And now that ish is real, we have some people asserting “facts” and others trying to downplay the severity of the issue and talking about “nasty attitudes”. And yes, 420722, I’m addressing you directly. The frustration comes from people not listening because of their own complexes and selfishness. Now we got some jackass saying “the curve will be reduced by 90% in 6 days” and you talking about “being positive”. This shit is real, yo. And like I said in another post, its PAINFULLY aware the people that have never suffered or gone without. People that have been privileged their entire life and are trying to normalize this situation. THIS ISNT A NORMAL situation, and your “everything is ok” mentality is gonna get people killed. This is serious. Treat it as such.
And that’s exactly my point. So now lets translate that to the current situation; does the medical team in the hospital put the 75 year old, chronic smoker with COPD who came FIRST to the hospital on the ventilator, or their 18 year old, (previously) perfectly healthy grandchild that BROUGHT THE VIRUS HOME, that ended up in the same hospital 2 days later? Who makes that decision and then has to live with it? Not our civil rights activists or SJWs…. But doctors and nurses and other health care professionals. THIS IS WHY YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTIVES AND THE THE FRICK HOME!!!!!! These aren’t hypotheticals anymore. And its REALLY apparent the people that have NEVER suffered or gone without. As Cypher from the Matrix would say” Buckle up, Dorothy, ’cause Kansas is going bye-bye…”
Instinct for self preservation doesn’t develop in young brains until age 25 or so. That’s why young men are willing to go to war for us. Silly to expect mature behavior in most youngsters- be grateful for the ones that are acting maturely.