Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) reported four deaths and 61 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday.
Two individuals were 70+ years of age and two were 50-69 years. Three individuals had underlying health issues and one death was associated with an outbreak at a congregate care facility. The individuals resided in North County unincorporated, Orcutt, Goleta, and South County unincorporated.
There have now been 420 deaths.
There are currently 352 active cases. Of those, 57 are hospitalized including 19 in the ICU.
More data can be found here: https://publichealthsbc.org/status-reports/
Time to look at the positive side- Yes, death is horrible and inevitable- This “virus” will be around for a long time- It did contribute in some way to the 452 deaths in a county of 500,000 people, but as a percentage it was only .09% of the total population! In the meantime, I prefer to look at the best of situations when I can- Just sayin!
I like how you view things BMK, we could use some more positivity around here.
But 1.37% isn’t accurate either…as it assumes that every single person with COVID was tested and accounted for. Obviously quite a few additional people had it that were never tested, which is why 1.37% is also inaccurate.
Duke: I’m getting the asymptomatic percentage from the Santa Barbara Public Health Department status page. We hit peak of 10.3% asymptomatic at the end of October, and you can easily verify this right now by going to the status page entries and dividing the asymptomatic cases by the total positives and multiply by 100.
I prefer to do the calculations myself, based on actual testing data, rather than listen to someone who may potentially have an agenda. Furthermore, UCSB did some surveillance on this topic last spring, and as a UCSB community member you probably recall the study from the Arias lab. They asked the UCSB community, without symptoms, to come in and get tested. They determined a prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 to be about 1.0% in their study population (1). Additionally, the FDA has used prevalence of 5% when issuing the EUAs for diagnostics. Lastly, I don’t believe a single word that comes out of the mouth of Fauci, or many of the bureaucrats at the CDC for that matter. Do your own homework.
(1) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/10/01/2020.08.06.20169771.full.pdf
There’s nothing more authoritative in the social media age than amateur analysis, guaranteed agenda-free!