Edhat Staff
By edhat staff
Santa Barbara County is not eligible to move into the orange tier due to an uptick in COVID-19 cases, says Public Health.
Even though state officials announced today the metrics are widening yet again due to 4 million of the most at-risk Californians being vaccinated, Santa Barbara County came up short. Other Southern California counties such as Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Riverside all moved into the orange tier.
During Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Public Health Director Dr. Van Do-Reynoso stated the county has a 6.8 adjusted case rate per 100,000 population and it needs a 5.9 or lower for two consecutive weeks to qualify for the less restrictive orange tier.
Last week Santa Barbara County had a 5.3 adjusted case rate. “We will have some work ahead of us,” she said.
The Public Health Department is attributing the slight uptick as a result of reopening and loosening restrictions. Dr. Do-Reynoso said the pandemic is shifting nationally towards younger unvaccinated people who appear to be more mobile and social. Locally there has been an increase in cases for people in their 20’s who are college students or work in offices. Regionally the increase is seen in Santa Barbara, Goleta, unincorporated areas of Goleta, and unincorporated north county.
On Monday, the Public Health Department announced anyone age 16 or older are now eligible to receive the vaccine at public health vaccination sites due to a large volume of vaccine availability. More appointments will open up for those 16 and older at clinics and pharmacies on April 15.
Approximately 17.3% of Santa Barbara County is fully vaccinated with 30% receiving at least one dose of the two-dose vaccine.
The Public Health Department administered 8,314 first vaccine doses in Lompoc last week and they plan to administer 9,150 doses in Santa Maria this week and 7,530 doses in Santa Barbara next week. Click here to make an appointment.
California as a whole had administered over 20 million vaccines, has stable hospitalization rates, and has the lowest testing positivity rate in the U.S., said Governor Gavin Newsom. In a statement on Monday Newsom said they plan to fully reopen the state by June 15.
Visit publichealthsbc.org for more information.
How shameful, the rest of Southern California is easing up, while our county remains with high numbers… Maybe the county supervisors need to worry more about their lack of enforcement of some of the public health orders, allowing overcrowded gyms to remain open, and less “shaming” of people who have gone to any lengths to get vaccines. The contempt they (esp Das Williams, and the PH director) expressed today for “south county” and “white” people who sought and got vaccines is truly mind boggling. Our county has lagged behind our neighboring counties in distributing and opening up a wider net; if the pharmacies in Oxnard or SLO or Orcutt “allow” someone to sign up for a vaccine, yay. If the laborers and convalescent home employees refuse to get a vaccine thats been available to them for months- whose fault is that?
Some people truly are delusional. Unmasked people and freedumbers are more likely to get COVID. COVID infection has been shown to have lasting neurological effects. Coincidence?
June 15th. Just continue some basic things like masking up and social distancing will help us get there. Get your vaccine unless you have a medically legitimate reason for not getting it. Anti-Vaxxers and morally corrupt Evangelist-Q-Trumpers will be socially ostracized and obstructed from playing in the reindeer games. Darwinism will kill end-game capitalism. Let me just be clear though – Bevmo has been accessible through lock down and will continue to be accessible through the end of days. Don’t step on any snow plovers and the beaches shall remain open.
“I thought it interesting that Das and others expressed dismay at white people driving up north to get vaccines. Obviously, the way they are being rolled out is not in a way that is easy for anyone, really.”
You mean the same Das Williams that sends out eblasts on vaccine locations, including Santa Maria? The same Das that as a supervisor, has oversight of this same public health department? The one that had such a struggle getting vaccines, and registrations for people out? The same department where 211 rang endlessly? That Das Williams? Now proudly wearing the banner of equity and social justice AFTER his constituents got vaccines?
We have become a world of beta testers. Look at the Boeing 737 MAX…rolled out without sufficient testing and failed with catastrophic results. Look at some of the operating systems or games that are released full of bugs, only to be perpetually patched (and even refunded) after users complain about the experience. Even some iterations of popular cell phone models have been released without proper testing only for users to discover manufacturing flaws (Samsung Galaxy 7, Galaxy Fold, iPhone 4). Most people are just sheep that follow trends/fads and don’t really care about—or expect—quality anymore.
When the people against him learn to spell.
When is Newsomes last day?
We’re going to reopen – briefly. There will be another variant – a deadlier one. It will be given a different identifier, like… Covid 21 (The Atlantic already had an article last week referring to it). We’ll go on another, more stringent lockdown – because we’re already obedient enough. There will be a debt relief program offered. Universal basic income will be instituted. And those, GeneralTree – you’ll like this, anyone who chooses not to take the vaccine will be deemed a ‘public health threat’ and isolation facilities will be established. Oh, and there will be a supply chain break down (which is already happening). World Economic Forum prediction for 2030 “You will own nothing. And you will be happy.” No property (private property is UNSUSTAINABLE.) No clothes, nothing. It will all be rented, and you won’t even have to shop. It will be done for you…. You can just enjoy your life. There’s an anology about a frog. Toss a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. Put a frog in a pot of water and slowly heat it, it will stay there until it boils to death.