Source: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office
A sheriff’s deputy is recovering at home after testing positive for COVID-19.
The deputy last worked patrol in the Santa Maria area on Friday, April 3, 2020. During that shift, the deputy began experiencing COVID-19-like symptoms and went home. The deputy was tested on Saturday, April 4, 2020 and self-isolated at home in San Luis Obispo County while awaiting the test results.
On Tuesday, April 7, 2020, the test returned as positive for COVID-19. After consulting with the Public Health Department, no one else was isolated as a result of this new case.
This is the seventh Sheriff’s Office employee to test positive for COVID-19.
Besides doing a great job your probally young and strong and yours will be a mild case . Best of everything . Big mack
Can we give a citizen’s ‘ticket’ to police for not wearing protective face covering? The County should require ALL employees to wear face masks when at work, period.
Please stay safe and take this seriously. We are almost at 20,000 deaths in this country