AnonymousSanta Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) is reporting the thirteenth and fourteenth deaths among individuals who tested positive for COVID-19. One individual resided in the City of Lompoc and was in their 70’s with underlying health conditions. The other individual was a person incarcerated at the Federal Prison in Lompoc and was in their 50’s with no underlying health conditions. As of today, there are 1,697 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County, 979 cases are at the Federal Prison in Lompoc, and 718 are community cases, and 1,559 have fully recovered.
“We are saddened by the loss of both of these individuals and express our condolences to their loved ones and communities. As we continue to battle the spread of COVID-19, we ask community members to continue doing their part by wearing facial coverings while in public and continued physical distancing,” said Henning Ansorg MD, Santa Barbara County Public Health Officer.
Although most cases of COVID-19 exhibit mild or moderate symptoms, PHD recommends additional measures to prevent exposure among vulnerable people, including the elderly and those with underlying health conditions (such as diabetes, cancer, immunodeficiency, asthma, COPD and others). PHD recommends that residents, especially those who are vulnerable:
- Stay home when possible
- When engaging in tasks away from home, remain six feet away from others and wear a facial covering.
- Wash your hands with soap and water regularly.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth.
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
For general questions about COVID-19 and precautions currently recommended by Santa Barbara County Public Health, residents may call the Santa Barbara County Call Center at (833)-688-5551. The Call Center is open weekdays (except for holidays) from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY COVID-19 REOPENING METRICS DASHBOARD
Source: Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
On May 20, 2020 Santa Barbara County’s Attestation and Reopening Plan was approved by the State of California. The Attestation included the County’s ability to reopen while keeping COVID-19 cases low enough to be swiftly contained. Today, Santa Barbara County Public Health is releasing a dashboard to the public that keeps track of the metrics that Santa Barbara County agreed to maintain in order to stay open and to continue to reopen in the coming weeks.
Highlights of the dashboard include the following:
- A hospital stabilization metric to demonstrate whether the County meets the 7-day average of less than 5% daily percent change
- A testing results metric that demonstrate that the testing positivity over the past 7 days is less than 8%
- A testing capacity metric demonstrating a minimum daily testing of 1.5 per 1000 residents
- A hospital capacity metric demonstrating a local capacity to accommodate a minimum surge of 35%
- Personal Protective Gear Metric that shows the availability of disinfectant supplies and protective gear for Stage One Essential Workers
- Separate case rate details for the Federal Corrections Institution in Lompoc
Data metrics coming soon include:
- A containment capacity metric demonstrating at least 15 contact tracers per 100,000 residents and availability of temporary housing units to shelter at least 15% of county residents experiencing homelessness in case of an outbreak amount the population
- Vulnerable populations metrics with coordination criteria and that demonstrates that skilled nursing facilities have more than 14-day supply of PPE on hand for staff
The dashboard provides recent data and is recalculated daily. It is not meant to track the progress of the virus over the course of the pandemic but rather provide a snapshot of the most recent data.
To view the dashboard, please visit Santa Barbara County’s Coronavirus Website. For general questions about COVID-19 and guidance, residents may call the Santa Barbara County Call Center at (833) 688-5551.
Protests have cancelled Covid. herd immunity > stay at home. you think we will see an uptick in cases?
We saw an old white guy with a van in Buellton today with “SCAM-DEMIC” painted on the rear window. 🙂
The same people who were adamantly against going out of their house are just fine with protesting. Between opening up and all this, there has to be an uptick. It will be blamed on Businesses though.
Big spike. No one seems to give an F that healthy people can die to. As long as they can get their hair cut and go to the gym, they don’t care at all. Following their blind leader.
And you know it’s “the same people who were adamantly against going out of their house” how?
Only 2 cases for Santa Barbara. That is not a spike. Santa Maria has been a hot spot for this flu the whole time so that’s not new news either.
2 cases today, yes, but 15 in the last week for Santa Barbara. Spike? Maybe. Also, coronavirus is not influenza. I’m on your side as far as opening up, but let’s just be honest about these numbers and language.
Hey 420722, IT IS NOT THE FLU. After months of this Covid19 virus, you should know that
Yawn.
BIGUGLY – everyone was saying we’d see a spike after that weekend where everyone flocked to the beaches a month ago. No spike. Maybe, just maybe, this is not as bad as we all thought. I’m still social distancing, wearing a mask, and not letting my kids play with groups of more than 1 kid at a time under our supervision, but I think it might be time to start relaxing a little. I can’t keep my kids away from school, sports, friends much longer. It’s time to live, carefully and safely, but live nonetheless!
SACJON everyone said we’d see a spike after the lockdown protests too – did that happen? Not sure why the same people crying and screaming about those protests now are changing their tune. Not that much time has passed and the virus is still around and still as contagious with the same symptoms.
Same exact symptoms. If it walks like a flu, talks like a flu…although it may be caused by a different virus, both are infectious respiratory illness. Now back in the bunker you go.
420722: The word for today is “Etiology”
SACJON and 1:31pm: Perhaps not a “spike” in the way you’re thinking, but since 2-3 weeks ago, daily new cases in California are trending upward. The data doesn’t lie.
Why risk it if you aren’t sick. I wont.
I think that small rise was expected for stage 2. The next 7 to 21 days are now a critical time to evaluate sars-2. IMO
Active cases is what i have been following. From what i can gather on the graph, the number of confirmed infected people who could be out n about in our towns is down 65% from two weeks ago. 391 vs 134. Anyone else reading it like this?
Makes sense . Vascular tissue is where you find the highest levels of Angiotensin-converting enzyme, the keys to the kingdom for SARS-2 .
Waiting for the spike is like waiting for Godot.
yea but Godot like covid-19 is free to anyone who wants it. lol
It’s not 2 new cases, it was 2 deaths, and 28 new cases. New cases seem to be continually drifting up… people are not being as vigilant and that combined with the protests is going to be telling in the next few weeks 🙁 Even though they admit we don’t meet the state standards for opening up, the BOS is twisting themselves in knots with excuses on why we still qualify… I guess we’ll have to see how that goes.
Same exact symptoms? Nope. Tuberculosis is also an infectious respiratory disease. It’s not the flu, though, and neither is this virus.
Check the SB health department website Goleta spring. Santa Barbara had 2 cases.
Ran into a medical article supporting this disease being blood vesset related: https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2
You need more facts before commenting. 99.xx% of healthy people do not die from this. They won’t even know they have it. Being out and about is still MUCH healthier than locked at home 24/7.
There will be an uptick on paper, because that is what those reporting it want you to think. In reality, it is not anywhere as bad as the reports sound. Notice how it is hardly in the news now – the protests have taken over. Something to make you look the other way while something else is happening.
and he is absolutely correct.
Cases are drifting up, but mostly in North County. SB has had a total of 95 cases, 80 are fully recovered.
Covid is still around…Many of the protesters photographed were wearing masks. There are many variables to take in, but hopefully wearing masks during the protest will help prevent a steep spike in CV-19 during these times when protests are much needed.
The dashboard at that link tells 10000x more of a story than these press releases in paragraph form. We are talking about numbers, SBCPHD, no need for the narrative. Yesterday was the biggest increase in total cases we have seen in over 2 weeks. Expect a spike. With all the traveling and naughty mask behavior going on the past week, it is more important now than ever to wear your mask vigilantly in public.
We will see a spike. Just watch. Everyone flocking to stores, restaurants and hair salons? NO thank you. Stay safe, everyone, this thing is still happening. Riots and Trump didn’t cancel the virus.
The gigantic “Lake of the Ozarks” party in Missouri a couple weeks ago so far has not resulted in a spike of coronavirus cases. It’s data point. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/state-and-regional/no-new-covid-19-cases-from-lake-of-the-ozarks-crowds-missouri-health-director-says/article_6f36ad32-d125-5382-b78f-74bd0f6510ac.html
Los Angeles Co is starting to spike. 1100 new cases this week so far.
@7:49 am: 1100 cases for LA county is not necessarily a spike. You need to provide a link to show the relevance of that figure to the case trend for LA county. I’d do it myself but I’m off to work. I believe there is a website run by the state that has the virus trend for every county. By the 4th of July we’ll find out if all the protests lead to spikes in cases in the big cities.