Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) has added 260 COVID-19 cases since Friday as hospitalizations decrease.
The county’s grand total is now 5,836 while the active case count is 308 as of Monday.
PHD is reporting 79 hospitalizations including 24 people in the intensive care unit (ICU). This number is down from Friday where there were 85 hospitalizations with 26 ICU cases.
More numbers can be found here.
Specific Numbers to Cottage Health
Below is a status update as of July 27, 2020.
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Cottage Health is caring for a total of 239 patients across all campuses.
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187 are acute care patients; 201 acute care beds remain available.
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Of the 187 acute care patients, 12 patients are on ventilators. 78 ventilators remain available (adult, pediatric and neonatal ventilators).
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Of the 187 acute care patients, 33 are in isolation with COVID-19 symptoms; 30 are confirmed COVID-19 positive.
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Of the 33 patients in isolation, 8 patients are in critical care.
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From July 13-19:
4,256 COVID-19 laboratory tests were collected by Cottage Health.
Results: 260 positive, 3,994 negative, 2 pending -
From July 20-26:
3,730 COVID-19 laboratory tests were collected by Cottage Health.
Results: 202 positive, 2,984 negative, 544 pending
The “weakest link” is Plantation California, the oblivious rich people who don’t pay their agricultural and manual workers enough to enable them to live in uncrowded homes and work at jobs where their health and well-being is respected. Seriously, people, if we didn’t treat our senior citizens like trash, warehousing them in unregulated homes; paid our working classes and immigrant laborers a decent wage; and stop criminalizing black, Latino, and working-class people, we’d have this COVID crisis cracked!!!
Seriously, is there a way we can petition to get Santa Maria OFF of the county COVID-19 rolls for the rest of Santa Barbara County (much like SB petitioned the governor to remove the Lompoc Prison cases)? They are seriously ruining it for everyone else in the county.
Nailed it Loose.
Supply and demand. Endless supply of cheap labor drives the market rate for labor down. Close the boarder and watch the cheap labor dry up. Businesses will have to start paying more to get the manpower they need. Housing prices will stabilize. Occupation density will go down. Problem solved.
The weakest link are the teachers unions and teacher union members who need a flood of new students every year to fill California’s failing classrooms, and sanctuary cities like Santa Maria who protect them once arrived. Teachers union members are by far the biggest beneficiary of illegal immigration – billions of dollars of taxpayer benefit every year since SCOTUS mandated free K-12 regardless of illegal immigration status. . Surprised, right? Follow the money.
M-Cubed & ABC 109 – stop eating produce. That’s your answer. Lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, artichokes, avocados, oranges, lemons, tangerines, limes, carrots, green beans, radishes, onions, garlic, maters, zuchinni, squash, brussel sprouts, strawberries, melons, pumpkins, asparagus, arugula, celery…. You want Santa Maria to stop representing – hope you’re not a part of the demand.
How about they produce products with better conditions for the workers? Saying ‘don’t eat food from there” is a weak argument.
Just an idea… is the amount of money that our community has lost, and is continuing to lose, by being in this pandemic lockdown greater than the cost of increasing wages for laborers and other under-privileged workers so they don’t need to live in dense housing, and aren’t forced to come to work if they are sick? It seems to me that increasing their wages would reduce the transmission of the trump virus and would allow our economy to reopen sooner. I don’t know if the numbers make sense economically, but it’s something to think about..
Spreading garbage like your anti-teacher, anti-union rant only shows how little you know. Maybe if you covered your freakin face we would not have to hear your poisonous rhetoric?