Anonymous
Source: Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
Santa Barbara County is reporting the highest daily case count of COVID-19, with 360 new positive cases today, December 14, 2020. This surge in cases falls just over two weeks after the Thanksgiving Holiday, as anticipated by local health experts, and is directly related to gatherings of family and friends.
“Today’s positive case count surpasses any daily count we have seen to date, and underscores the predictions we have anticipated if people continue to gather with those outside of their immediate households,” states Van Do-Reynoso, Director of the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department. “We are at a critical state of urgency with ICU bed availability declining at a rapid rate.”
With the dramatic spike in positive cases, the Public Health Department is working as quickly as possible to contact trace all who have newly tested positive, but resources are being stretched beyond anything previously seen, even with surge capacity plans in place. It is critical that the public assist. If people have tested positive for the virus, they must take immediate action to stay home and isolate themselves from others while following the isolation guidelines and notifying others who have been in close contact to them.
“We have reached case counts that exceed all previous records,” says Do-Reynoso. “It is imperative that each individual take action now and stay home. We are reaching a point where we can see on the horizon our health care system being overrun. We must take immediate action as our decisions are now seeing the price to be paid, and it is costing the lives and wellbeing of our community members.”
For more information about the local impacts of COVID-19, please website www.publichealthsbc.org or call 2-1-1.
Well, apparently, these stats do not include Solvang based on the behavior of their burghers and government leaders. Head in the sand just like the ostriches down the road.
wow, lock down is having its desired effect
Yeah I get you are being sarcastic but truthfully almost none of the 22 and under crowd have done their part. Thus what you are seeing now.
DEATH DEATH DEATH
GRIM NEW DEATH TOTALS
NO GOOD NEWS
Thanks, Edhat!
I usually go here for state wide data, then you can select whatever county you want:
https://covid19.ca.gov/data-and-tools/
You can select cases by county or hospitalization data. Some counties are going up wildly, ours not so much yet. Ventura county is especially bad. However, lots of cases, but not the equivalent fatalities compared to earlier in the year.
They’re young and up for the challenge it seems. Doesn’t seem to be having a terrible impact on our local health care system, as the increase in hospitalizations, ICU admittance and ventilator use is not proportional to the post-Thanksgiving spike in cases.
We are at peak cases since March of last year. We have half the population of Ventura and about half the case numbers they do. Trending at doubling every week now. How is that better than Ventura?
GT, Per the state of California COVID Cases dashboard, Ventura’s summer peak on 8/1 was 298 cases, but on 12/12 cases peaked at 956 cases.
Santa Barbara peaked at 200 cases on 8/10, and on 12/12 we hit 209 cases. We’re just catching up to our summer peak, but Ventura is 3X theirs.
It’s December.
Gyms are closed. Bars are closed. Restaurants are closed.
Yet the liquor store 2 blocks away is worked by a gentleman that has never even owned a mask.
Someone interacting with and stocking products for THOUSANDS of customers every month doesn’t wear a mask while the rich encourage you to look down on people out for a walk.
I quit my job at CVS because THEY don’t even take it seriously.
The virus is real, but the reaction to it has nothing to do with keeping you safe. It’s about keeping you compliant.
If you think any of these businesses are wearing masks when you’re not around, or when they’re unloading trucks or stocking products at night, you’re mistaken.
Cops don’t care. Governor doesn’t care. Health companies don’t care. Nobody cares if you die. They just care if you comply.
Keep rooting for your downfall while the rich get richer. I’m enjoying the show.
It’s about keeping you alive. Rigor mortis isn’t compliant.
Why would anyone believe such an oddly distorted view of the world?
You can twist data any way you’d like. Doubling every 7 days isn’t a flowery picture of Santa Barbara. Stop playing.
That’s data compiled by the state of California. Take a look at the numbers yourself, you paid for it. If you don’t like it, take it up with Sacramento. There’s no twist unless Sacramento is cooking the books.
The twist was yours, implying that the current situation is no big deal,
Think what the billionaires want you to think.
Say what the billionaires want you to say.
Do what the billionaires want you to do.
Because that’s what heroes do.
Why would anyone believe such an oddly distorted view of the world?
Mostly because I have eyes.
Lockdowns obviously hurt small business and help Amazon.
The government won’t let you go to the gym with a mask, while not enforcing mask requirements on employees of businesses that remain open.
The governor goes out to group dinners while closing restaurants.
The place that you’ll get vaccinated at (CVS) has managers show up sick and without masks. They aren’t allowed to do anything if you shop without a mask. They stock shelves and unload trucks without masks. They take off their masks the moment the store closes. They wear masks under their noses.
These rules aren’t for the rich. They’re for you.
Keep trolling. I don’t care if you ruin your children’s future. Just like you, I look forward to it.
No one cares anymore. Saturday drove past the Rose Garden with hundreds of people in large groups. Outdoors is safer, but it is not “safe” to meet 27 of your closest friends and share a meal outside. On E. Cota saw a large outdoor party at a multigenerational home. Today saw tons of young hard bodies entering Variant Training Lab in street clothes carrying gym bags… what do you suppose that’s about? the government should have paid people to stay home.
Eyes with an oddly distorted view of the world.
Why would I believe… my eyes? You have to be trolling.
Here is the 7-day case rate and 7-day % positivity, each Monday for the past 4 weeks—these values are 7 days apart.
Case rate: 15.3 (11/23), 16.7 (11/30), 24.3 (12/7), 36.9 (12/14)
% positivity: 3.5 (11/23), 3.8 (11/30), 5.0 (12/7), 7.2 (12/14)
Please raise your hand if you think these numbers are doubling every 7 days.
I was just going to pose that same question. There should be no reason they cant wear masks and social distance in the fields and on the bus like the rest of us do. Thomas John hits another important nail as well. The individuals have to have some culpability with regards to behavior modification requests.
Thomas, yeah, it looks bad for sure when looking at the deaths per day. Let’s do a comparison on that information presented on the state’s website. The last time we had a huge number of deaths in one day was July 31—219 deaths and 6,542 cases reported, for a mortality estimate of 3.35%. For the “current wave”, on December 11—225 deaths and 35,729 cases reported, for a mortality estimate of 0.63%. Same thing with COVID hospitalizations, with 7,772 hospitalized on 7/31 (118.8%; more in hospital than reported that day) versus 13,410 on 12/12 (37.53%). What do you think now?
Thomas, there’s actually no way to know when the positive cases became deaths from the data that’s publicly available. In some cases there’s certainly a delay between a positive test and a tragic outcome, but the number of days is variable and not specifically published. In other cases the test may be performed on the blood of a deceased individual to determine the exact cause of death. All of this make analysis complicated. Nevertheless, if you look at the data around 7-31, it’s fairly well distributed 2 weeks before and after. It’s a little trickier for 12-11, as we don’t know the distribution of cases for the next two weeks. Therefore I was careful to specify “mortality estimate” in my post. Still, to a approximation, there’s a dramatic difference between the mortality and hospitalizations for June and December.
Thomas, I don’t make much of the raw numbers since the don’t show the whole picture, which is why I added the percentages in parentheses. Yes, there are more deaths and more hospitalizations because COVID is really spreading again, and more people have it than before. I’m not questioning that fact, but merely putting things into perspective and pointing out that the percentage of people dying or ending up hospitalized is less than over summer. This is meant to be a shining beacon, in stark contrast to members of the COVID death cult who seem to feed off the negativity and ritualistically post the worst numbers they can find in order to frighten people.
That’s so thoughtful of you amateur analysts. Everyone should just chill out and be calm about a deadly disease ravaging the country. What’s the worst case? You die. Everyone dies.
I believe in Bill…Gates. Even all his money can’t stop his aging. Pass the ibuprofen.
When the user name gives you a headache, you know the comments are going to be out there. Confirmed.
Yeah Edhat. Don’t report the truth that makes the US look bad. Only report on kittens and puppies. That will make us a better nation. Not.
I’ll say it again, farmworkers wear masks as much as any of us, and maybe more so from what I see. But if hospital workers are still getting sick after wearing full PPE, then that means masks don’t provide full protection. Masks help a little to prevent you from getting it, but are most effective at preventing you from spreading it as much if you are sick and interacting with other people.