18 COVID Positive Cases Remain in Main Jail

June 14, 2022, 12:21 pm 14.5k Views 81 Comments

Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
​June 13, 2022

The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are 37 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak with 19 inmates recovered and 18 active cases. Of the 37 identified cases, 9 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 28 are asymptomatic.

Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
​June 10, 2022

The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are 26 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak with 18 inmates recovered and 8 active cases. One of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak required hospitalization and has since been cleared for return to the facility, 8 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 18 are asymptomatic.

Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
​June 6, 2022

The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are 22 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak with 12 inmates recovered and 10 active cases. One of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 4 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 18 are asymptomatic.

On Saturday, May 28, 2022, Sheriff’s Office Custody staff and our Wellpath partners identified a COVID outbreak in the Northern Branch Jail (NBJ) Housing Unit E. There are 14 total cases associated with the NBJ outbreak, with 1 inmate released, 6 inmates recovered and 7 cases remaining in the facility. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 9 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 5 are asymptomatic.

Update by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
​June 3, 2022

The Sheriff’s Office is updating the status of COVID in our jail facilities. An outbreak was discovered on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the Main Jail West Housing Module. There are currently 20 total cases associated with the Main Jail outbreak. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 3 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 17 are asymptomatic.

On Saturday, May 28, 2022, Sheriff’s Office Custody staff and our Wellpath partners identified 7  COVID positive inmates at the Northern Branch Jail (NBJ) Housing Unit E. There are 14 total cases associated with the NBJ outbreak, with one inmate released and 13 cases remaining in the facility. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 9 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 5 are asymptomatic.

Source: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
May 28, 2022

Sheriff’s Office Custody staff and our Wellpath partners have identified a COVID outbreak in the Main Jail. On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Custody Staff detected 12 COVID positive inmates in the Main Jail West housing module. On Friday, March 27, 2022, one additional COVID positive inmate was detected in the East housing area. All COVID positive inmates are continuously monitored by custody staff and Wellpath medical professionals. None of the COVID positive inmates in this outbreak require hospitalization, 2 inmates have reported being symptomatic, and 11 are asymptomatic.

As we identify COVID-19 positive inmates, they are moved into an area of the facility that has negative pressure cells. The remainder are placed together in small groups (cohorts) and isolated from other inmates and monitored by Wellpath for symptoms. Inmates with severe symptoms or who have underlying health conditions are transported to a hospital for evaluation and treatment, although none of the inmates in this outbreak have necessitated hospital transport. As a result of this outbreak and after consulting with County Public Health, visitation has been suspended. We are also coordinating with the Santa Barbara Court and the Public Defender’s Office to adjust court
appearances to minimize the spread of the virus through the movement of inmates.

The Sheriff’s Office has worked on a continual basis with our Wellpath and Public Health partners to address this outbreak as well as to establish and constantly re-evaluate plans for health safety within the Main Jail. Inmates are tested when they arrive in our custody and are housed separately from the general population during the initial 7 days of their stay. They are tested again before they are moved out of the quarantine area into other areas of the facility. During their stay, inmates are tested whenever they exhibit symptoms and whenever they might have been exposed to someone who has tested positive. The Sheriff’s Office continues to offer all three of the COVID-19 vaccines to all inmates as well as an incentive program where funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is used to award newly vaccinated inmates with $20 added to their commissary fund for full vaccination or $10 for a booster. Additionally, Wellpath has administered over 796 vaccinations at the Main Jail and Northern Branch Jail since the beginning of the pandemic.

All staff, both professional and sworn, who work in positions that have direct inmate contact are regularly tested and are required to wear an N95 mask while working. The Sheriff’s Office will provide regular updates on the status of this outbreak.

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  5. “Inmates are tested when they arrive in our custody and are housed separately from the general population during the initial 7 days of their stay. ”
    I just hope recalcitrant Sheriff’s dept. employees are not giving Covid to inmates. Can’t imagine losing visitation to unvaccinated employees.

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  11. Basic, if you dismissed or ignored any information contrary to your beliefs the past several years this IS new information. Don’t expect any apologies for the ill will they wished on the unvaccinated though.

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  13. I’m not going to get into the specific details except to say that in order to participate in a certain event all participants were required to be vaccinated and fully boosted. It was shortly after getting boosted that the unexpected reaction occurred. The reaction is manageable with medication, and we are hoping that with time the effects will diminish. The cherry on top is that the booster didn’t prevent covid. I’m not an anti vaxxer as it pertains to normal vaccines, but for my daughter to get an injection called a vaccine that didn’t prevent getting disease while giving her an extended side effect is a game changer.

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  17. Still regurgitating that “drink bleach” hoax…. and people are supposed to take your comments as serious, fact-based, and free from politically driven false information…. I have a bridge for sale if anyone is interested.

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  18. The amateur virology idiots are out in force again. No vaccine has ever provided 100% protection against infection, and 50% used to be considered a great result. The purpose of vaccination is to reduce the transmission and severity of disease, which all the COVID vaccines do remarkably effectively, despite all the right-wing propaganda spewing.
    Since very infectious diseases like COVID spread exponentially, even a small drop in the infection rate translates into a huge benefit to the populace overall.
    Get vaccinated. Get boosted. Or stay stupid.

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  19. 13 people in my circle have come down with Covid in the last ~2 weeks:
    – 5 were double boosted
    – 7 were vaccinated and/or single boosted
    – 1 was unvaccinated
    One of the doubled boosted people developed the worst symptoms. The unvaccinated person was no sicker or better than anyone in the group they were in. For five people the second booster did not prevent them from getting Covid. All have recovered just fine, thankfully. They all report that it was worse than a cold , but not as bad as the flu. 7 of the people were 20-30s, everyone else was 50 or older.

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  21. Your “circle”, judging from previous comments, seems to be a bunch of people averse to public health measures like masking in gyms and other settings. No surprise, given the infectivity of the later omicron variants, that these people would get infected.

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  28. Nearly fully vaccinated Singapore (among many other highly vaccinated populations) would like a word about your claim the current Covid vaccines do “remarkably effectively[sic]” at reducing transmission. With all the information and data out now, that is common knowledge not to be the case. I question where you’re getting your information, because the CDC, White House, WHO ,et. al. don’t even claim they’re effective at reducing transmission anymore – simply effective at reducing symptoms (so they say).

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  30. Is the primary series of a COVID-19 vaccine effective against omicron?
    “The simplest answer would be [the vaccines] are holding very well in terms of protecting from severe disease and hospitalization and worse,” says Alessandro Sette, Dr.Biol.Sci, an immunologist and professor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California. “[But] they are not holding as well at protection from infection.”
    https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/omicron-and-vaccines-your-questions-answered

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  32. Kinda hard to trust anything about the vaccines coming from someone who thinks they are the same as a covid “treatment.”
    “Because if they set up treatment sites Big Pharma couldn’t get EUA for their shots (no EUA if alternate treatments are available). It was all about the money, not our actual health.” — https://www.edhat.com/news/california-streamlines-access-to-covid-19-testing-and-treatment

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  33. https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.jsp slide 4, why would people with 3 shots post five months, reveal 37.8% of positive tests while only making up 30.7% of test taken. If the vaccine was effective at reducing transmission, the % of postive tests should be lower the to % of tests taken. I think it’s about time people got off their high horse in shaming the unvaccinated and vaccine hesitate and blaming them for our covid ills, as the data shows that is clearly misplaced.

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  35. All the new cases of Covid that I know about since my last post are “vaccinated “, boosted, and double boosted people. Why is it still called a vaccine when after getting four shots you still get sick and spread it to others?

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  36. Sac – Personal stories about Covid, which in this context are off topic. It’s about the jail. Obviously COVID’s everywhere, half Edhats stories have been Covid related, Everyone can say what they want of course.

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  37. If you described the shots benefits (accurately) to people in 2019 they would say ‘that’s not a vaccine’, it would sound more like a preventative treatment to alleviate symptoms. In a better world, many would be spending some serious internal reflection time on all the ill will, hate, and blame they spewed towards the unvaccinated and vaccine hesitant the past year and half – all unwarranted and unnecessarily divisive.

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  39. AHCHOOOO – exactly. We had a recent spate of Covid here in my area of Goleta. I feel like everyone I know either got it or someone in their home did. I had it. It was no fun, but that was mostly due to the sheer panic of having something I knew could kill me, given a health condition I had. I was mildly sick for a few days and then fine. People I knew that weren’t vaccinated were not so lucky and and some (only the unvaxxed ones) are still suffering what is described now as “long covid.” To say the vaccines did nothing is asinine. They likely saved my life. Despite living in close quarters with my family, I’m the only one who got it in my house. Not so with my unvaxxed buddy, whose entire house was infected. It’s not rocket science to see how effective the vaccine was at stopping me from spreading it too easily and keeping me out of the hospital.
    And no, I will never “apologize” to those who flat out REFUSED to do anything at all to help stop the spread. They’re the ones who gave it to me and now they’re the ones who are unfortunately still sick. I feel bad for them, but hey….. they had plenty of chances to avoid this.

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  43. Vaccine hesitant – you mean anti-vax far-right extremists who thought it was ok to drink bleach and shoot up hydroxychloroquine? We didn’t have vaccine hesitant people posting here – only people with politically driven agenda’s spewing false information about vaccines – like yourself.

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  44. Um, do we know how vaccines work? Vaccine effectiveness depends on the vaccine. It also depends on timing. Effectiveness fades. Much like the effectiveness of the flu shot – where researchers “guess” what kind of strain will be dominant each season (sometimes they are right, sometime they are not right, sometimes there are more than one strain)…effectiveness varies.
    For one thing, there are multiple types of vaccines for COVID, plus the immunity you get from getting COVID. In addition, effectiveness of the vaccine fades over time. Finally, we have had multiple variants – a vaccine that was designed for Alpha now has to contend with Delta (more contagious), Omicron (even more contagious), and newer Omicron variants (even MORE contagious). (Never mind the individual’s personal immune system and particular dose).
    Initial studies DID show that the vaccine prevented spread…of an earlier variant of COVID. Now you’ve got newer variants, and we are finding that some people test positive COVID with no symptoms, others have symptoms but don’t test positive. Some people get sick and test negative for DAYS until they are on the mend. Yeah, “what can we learn from people who have never had COVID?” Well, I dunno. I’ve never had COVID…or have I? I mean, who knows if I’m an asymptomatic carrier…

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  49. Although what you fail to mention is that the heart risks from the vaccine are way way below the heart risks from COVID itself, and also less than the background rate in the population. Spread that anti-vax FUD!

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  51. @5:13 not in young males and adolescents. Or you’re right, all of Europe must be awash in FUD…. all our young healthy people should keep taking their boosters, of a vaccine that doesn’t prevent an infection, from a virus that doesn’t pose a risk to them. Science™! (brought to you by big pharma, their shareholders, and shill politicians everywhere).

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  53. A 14th person person close to me in one way or another just tested positive. I am the last family member not to have gotten it. 13 were vaccinated, and a significant number were double masking double boosted people. They took every possible precaution to the nth degree and the virus still found them. “Worse than a cold, not as bad as the flu” is what they all said. It’s time for the curtain to come down on Covid Theatrics.

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  54. You’re being incredibly foolish. Being vaccinated protects you from serious disease, and the latest strains of Omicron are getting up near measles in infectivity. Not to mention the chance you’ll kill someone more vulnerable. It’s time to stop pretending the epidemic is over, and you can have instant gratification without responsibility.
    Low conscientiousnesw conservatives. The new scourge on society.
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/personality-type-as-well-as-politics-predicts-who-shares-fake-news/

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  58. Fact checkers fail yet again, what the Walgreens data that ‘fact check’ refers to wasn’t comparing unvaccinated to vaccinated as it claims, but vaccinated to vaccinated plus booster:
    For the week of April 23, it said the rate of COVID-19 infections among boosted Americans was 119 cases per 100,000 people. That was more than double the rate of infections in those who were vaccinated but unboosted, but a fraction of the levels among unvaccinated Americans. _ https://www.cbsnews.com/video/covid-19-vaccine-boosters-infection-rates-immunology-professor/

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  59. “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data.” – CDC Director Rochelle Walensky FACT CHECK: even then there was no such data, either in the lab or real-word to backup that claim, and anything showing the contrary was using cherry picked data or incomplete information – nothing that would stand up to scientific scrutiny.

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  60. And it never was. A ‘cure’ is something given after a condition/disease/infection to relieve the patient of the symptoms/disease. A ‘vaccine’ is something taken prior to prevent the condition/disease/infection from occurring in the first place. CDC’s definition of ‘vaccine’ as-of early 2021: “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.” it NOW reads: “A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”

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  62. Well, your guess is wrong. Read the fact check again, watch the CBS video, then read this again: For the week of April 23, it said the rate of COVID-19 infections among boosted Americans was 119 cases per 100,000 people. That was more than double the rate of infections in those who were vaccinated but unboosted. —- Definitely get vaccinated if your an older adult or at-risk, the boosters however only appear to provide a short-term benefit before you need it again, and again, and again and we have zero data on 4+ shots and their long-term impacts both on efficacy and safety. But go ahead an boost away to your hearts content (or until your heart gives out).

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  66. “Data can be both inaccurately acquired and incorrectly assigned” 100% agree! I’d like you to to apply that same standard to a lot of what those bureaucrats and politicians you hold in such high regard put out the past few years. Remember when the “expert’s models” showed millions of California’s would die? I do, how’d that turn out? Remember how they ignored the data that showed the flu was more dangerous to young children, and that there was a lower incidence of spread in in-person schools than the general community and they closed schools anyway? I do, how’d that turn out? Remember when they were adamant a cloth mask was highly effective at preventing transmission (that’s after they first said they don’t work) ? I do, how’d that turn out? Remember them saying the vaccines here “highly effective” stopping transmission/preventing infection? I do, how’d that turn out? Trust, but verify – too much blind trust the past few years and decisions based on feelings rather than accurate facts and data.

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  69. DUKE – gotta disagree here man. Covid is running rampant again. It’s ripped through my home TWICE now in the past 1 1/2 months. All my kids’ friends and families have had it at least once in the past few months, some twice! The kids sports teams had it shut down games and practices as well just a few months ago. Kids missed 6th grade graduation because of it. I know a couple elderly and vulnerable people who have died from it in the past few months. IT IS STILL HERE.
    It’s not “fear mongering” to acknowledge that covid is still here and can still kill those with vulnerabilities. It’s simply stating FACTS. You can still spread it and people can still die. Now that mask mandates and closures are a thing of the past, it’s up to humanity to decide what to do with that information. I’m not too optimistic.

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  71. It ripped through a fully vaxxed and boosted household TWICE in the past 1 1/2 months!!!!! Let that sink in a minute…..maybe you need to boost harder? Meanwhile covid still hasn’t touched my household of unvaxxed kids and unboosted adults through unmasked schools, camps, bars, restaurants, unmasked airplane flights, etc…, which should be an impossibility as we don’t take any “precautions” we wouldn’t normally do already. Is amazing how addicted people got to Covid Theater, it’s going to be very hard for many to let go, but when they do, we’ll be here with open arms, regardless of all the hate they spewed on anyone who didn’t take the public health dept.’s (gov. bureaucrats) word as gospel and questioned the paranoia.

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  72. SHASTA – “It’s time for the curtain to come down on Covid Theatrics.” – Incredibly selfish of you to say. You’re lucky none in your “circle” are immunocompromised or have high risk conditions. Some in my circle weren’t so lucky and now their families are mourning. See how well policy based on personal anecdotes would work?
    It’s time for people to finally (been over 2 years folks) accept that covid still kills. Just because you and your (possibly fictitious) group of friends were all healthy enough to ride it out, doesn’t mean everyone else shares their fate. Think of others for once. This whole pandemic has certainly raised the curtain on the selfishness of mankind. Sad.

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  73. ” Meanwhile covid still hasn’t touched my household of unvaxxed kids and unboosted adults through unmasked schools, camps, bars, restaurants, unmasked airplane flights, etc.” – Awesome for you. You want a cookie or something?
    Hey, guess who else “never gets covid?” People who don’t test when they have symptoms. I know lots of anti-vaxxers who “never had covid” but they sure as shinola had the symptoms after being around people who DID have it. Thing is, they never tested, so of course it was “just allergies.”

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  74. Upwards of 40% of unvaxxed Covid survivors are finding themselves with a life long, life threatening heart condition – myocarditis. But we all know that you’d actually have to have a heart in order to be impacted by such things. So, here’s some thoughts and prayers for your future health VOR.
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    I added a few hundred thoughts and prayers for you in this response. They are definitely there. They are definitely real. Do you see them? Did you read them? What did they say? What did they do?

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  75. That’s a gross exaggeration for any long-covid symptom let alone specifically myocarditis. The CDC also disagrees: Estimates of the proportion of people who had COVID-19 that go on to experience post-COVID conditions can vary:
    13.3% at one month or longer after infection
    2.5% at three months or longer

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  76. Sorry Bud, but you are the LAST human on earth I’d take any medical or scientific advice from… Your feelings and beliefs are quite literally the opposite of science. So push back all you want, you live in a fantasy world designed to appease your inability to reason.
    PS _ I love how the same person who cites the CDC for things they want to agree with, also states that they are Government bureaucrats that should not be trusted… Do you have any sense of self? You’re really not very good at this.

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  79. Data can be both inaccurately acquired and incorrectly assigned. The fact that you dont know this is just one of many reasons why you’re whining on the internet and blaming everyone else for your shortcomings in life. After all, you had the same data everyone successful in life had. But instead of being successful and happy, you complain on the internet all day about how you’re not… Funny how that works. Same access to the same data, wildly different outcomes.
    The real FUD is your so-called “faith”. It’s 100% fake. No data, no science, no facts. Just a bunch of FUD designed to help gullible fools feel special and less scared of the realities of life… Unless you have data to back up your claims? If so, the world is waiting!

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