14 Deaths and 241 New COVID-19 Cases

By edhat staff

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) reported 14 deaths and 241 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday.

Ten individuals were 70+ years of age, two were 50-69, and two were 30-49 years of age. Eleven individuals had underlying health conditions and nine of the deaths were associated with outbreaks at congregate care sites.

The county has now lost 330 people to the virus since March of 2019.

There are currently 1,171 active cases within the county. Of those, there are 164 hospitalizations including 48 in the intensive care unit (ICU).

The county is reporting 19.7% of ICU availability.

More data can be found at https://publichealthsbc.org/status-reports/

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  1. There have been 63 new deaths since Gavin Newsom, driven by an impending recall, lifted the stay-at-home order on January 25th. That’s a 23.6% increase in deaths in a mere 11 days. Many of these deaths were associated with outbreaks in congregate living facilities. Gavin suddenly abandoned all that “science” he was preaching in order to save his own behind. Gavin clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he never has. Gavin has blood on his hands and he must go, immediately.

  2. LETMEGO, so you’re pointing out that these people caught COVID while the SoCal region was under Gavin’s lockdown, and I don’t disagree. His lockdown didn’t work. These poor individuals subsequently died towards the end of the lockdown or shortly after it was lifted. The point is that despite Gavin sounding the all clear, we are see a record number of deaths in a short time period, a clear indication of his complete failure at managing this crisis. A slow rollout of vaccines, which could have saved these poor people, and an apparent uninterest in implementing serious oversight on our nursing homes, when we know those are the most vulnerable people.

  3. Thanks. I believe I understand how you’re teasing out the deaths, but it seems like too much trouble to keep going over the past weeks to check for daily updates. Plus with the errors that you and I have encountered in some of these numbers, I have enough of a headache keeping the records straight. Reported date seems good enough to an approximation for the purposes of mortality rate, which is what I’ve been focusing on.

  4. Yes, quite true and thank you for pointing that out. I should have written “63 new reported deaths” to make that distinction. I’ve never delved deeper into the deaths other than the reported cases, so how are you getting the breakdown on when they actually died? I looked at the Dashboard but I may just be tired because I’m not really seeing those numbers. Thanks.

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