Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) is reporting two deaths and 66 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday.
Both residents were over 70 years of age and associated with an outbreak at a congregate-care facility, and one had underlying health conditions. One resident lived in the City of Santa Barbara and unincorporated area of Mission Canyon and one lived in the South County Unincorporated area.
There have now been 97 deaths related to COVID-19 within the county.
The grand total of cases is now 8,229 with 235 currently active. Of those, 41 are hospitalized including 18 in the intensive care unit (ICU).
One previously identified case was removed. A case can be removed for being out of the county, duplicate, or non-positive lab result, etc.
More data can be found here: https://publichealthsbc.org/status-reports/
How does this county & city ever hope to get off the governor’s no-no list?
The county won’t do anything, they love their dictator and all the power they now have over the sheep. The best way to end Coronafornia is to vote the bastard out.
I wish they would give a statistic on how we are moving, up or down, on the Governor’s 4 tiers.
We are currently at tier 4 which is more than 7 new daily cases per 100,000 people. It looks like we have 450,000 in the county so I think to move to tier 3 we need to have less than 31 new cases daily for a number of days in a row. We also need to have less than 8% positive test.
Graphic example of why we won’t be out of this purple bracket anytime soon. Too many fools.
Please explain? I’d love to hear your reasoning other than just being a snowflake because I can’t stand our Governor. I’ve never had this virus or known anyone that has had it after all this time. So again, what is my contribution to slowing us down from reopening if coronavirus has NEVER entered my circle?
You do well enough with your replies that further exposition would be redundant.
420722 Move to Texas.
Maybe we like what it going on here? We tried a extremist repub as President and that has worked out horribly. Imagine if Andy Colab was in charge here? Same result.
First of all I’m truly sorry that you lost two friends/family/people that you know.
But 18 positives and the two deaths? I’m guessing you are younger, probably go out and eat on state street a lot, have gone to bars, or worse, travel to LA as a group perhaps, and that’s how all those people got the disease. The best place now if your own home, with no one around you, still…..feeling is isolated is well……just too damn bad.
In my circle we’ve had 18 positive tests and 2 deaths. Just because you don’t know anyone doesn’t mean it’s not real.
Edhat must love you to let you use demeaning terms like that. It weakens your point when you use dog whistle hate speech in your posts to rile up your extremist friends.
“It looks like we have 450,000 in the county….”
Need to get some new glasses methinks, with refugees from south of the border, and alternative lifestyle folks (homeless), and dangerously over educated folks (students) it is closer to 750,000 methinks!
took the census last night, they allow you to do it anonymously, so I exercised that right while it still lasts, had to remind him I can register to vote as a homeless multiply times too!!
Enjoy the madness while it lasts, what make the USA so great is what you can get away with!!
Deference to the governor is a CYA distribution of liability. The local agency responsible for gathering results and employing people with $300k+ pay/benefit packages, excuses itself from accurate tabulation because, you know, the state. Chase your tail all day as far as they care. Come up with reasons why things happen but it’s irrelevant. Because not taking local responsibility distributes liability for non actions to the state. Who’s closing the beaches? Sorry, not us! It’s the state. Why are the results a mess? Yeah, the state. Where did all these last minute, apparently mis-diagnosed deaths come from? You got it! The guy up there! It’s his fault! This same playbook is used for everything. Wall Street does it all day long. It’s a math formula designed to hedge risk. The city council does it with it’s addiction to consultants to do all the work they should be doing. And here we go again.
18+2 cases in your circle? Maybe they should make people like you pay for the damage caused. This is statistically significant.
Your posts don’t make any sense- are you a Russian troll?
The reason we get such poor leadership and irresponsible decision making from our elected officials is because city and county employee unions have tied their hands so badly, rendering them useless once elected. Elected leaders come and go, term limits are useless. City and county employee unions are forever. That is why nothing changes. And voters have still not figured this out.