Edhat Staff
October 5, 2020, 3:53 am
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By edhat staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reports 72 new COVID-19 cases from Saturday through Monday.
The grand total of cases within the county is 9,319 with 122 still infectious.
There are currently 23 people hospitalized with COVID-19 including 5 in the intensive care unit (ICU).
More data can be found at: https://publichealthsbc.org/status-reports/
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Data is inconsistent every single time. Are there no standards in reporting.
JIMBO: Seriously? You must not be paying close attention. I’ve been pointing out issues with the data for months and months. For starters, take a look at any given day and add up the numbers of new cases in the column that shows them by region. Now subtract the number of Cumulative Positives (under Testing) for the previous day with the number of Cumulative Positives for the current day. The arithmetic difference between these to numbers should be equal to the new cases from all the regions, but it rarely is. Want more? Okay, a few weeks ago the PHD begged people to come in and get tested, because our low testing rate was causing the state of California to introduce a penalty and adjust upward the new cases/per day/ per 100,000 people. Then people, here on EdHat, claimed they couldn’t get a test despite trying. Sure enough, the average testing rate dropped and they were reporting fewer new tests/day meaning we were really going to be penalized, right? Wrong, the state actually adjusted the new cases/day/100,000 lower than the true 7-day average. How does that work? Everything from our local, state, and national public health officials is arbitrary and totally inconsistent. I’ve even called our local public health epidemiology center to get answers, and…well, that’s a story for another time. I’ll just say that the conversation didn’t inspire confidence because they couldn’t even tell me the population for SB County they were using. Took some time but apparently they’re using some number from the “finance office” or something like that and couldn’t really explain why.
We had almost as many as the White House.
Our numbers are doing pretty good. We just have to hope now that no one from the virus infested White House come to visit.
Where would we be without our armchair experts?
Chemical super freak… Ditto, or is that too considered not pc.
CSF: Government employees care about getting paid; but not much else. We used to call them civil servants, but no more. Now they are union members.
CHILLINNGRILLIN You are exactly right. Thank you.
Byzan, are you one of them to have such an intimate knowledge of how they act? What are you basing this assertion on? I know a few government employees and they do a good job for the public. So my experience is counter to your speculation.
Glad to see the peanut gallery is mobilized on here to nitpick the statistics. Surely anonymous posters on the internet are more credible than public health officials.
Maybe if there weren’t so many faulty test kits, a scrap of contact tracing, and anything resembling an effort from the Feds, local health departments would be better at their jobs. Instead we have an idiot president who compared the pandemic to WW2 then shifted all responsibilities to local and state levels. Byzantium’s ignorant drivel isn’t worth a response.