Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (PHD) confirms 12 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 526.
Of the total, 404 have fully recovered, 65 are quarantined at home, 39 are hospitalized with 13 in the intensive care unit (ICU), and there have been 8 deaths. More information about the locations and ages of the cases can be found here.
During Monday’s press conference, County Supervisor Gregg Hart confirmed the county is on track to comply with Governor Newsom’s reopening of low-risk businesses on Friday. The Business Recovery and Reopening Task Force will meet this week to make sure local businesses are prepared to follow the restrictions under this new timetable announced today.
Tomorrow, the first community testing site will open in Santa Maria with locations in Lompoc and Santa Barbara to open later this week. Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms is encouraged to contact their health provider or make an appointment. More information can be found here.
Cottage Health Numbers
Below is a status update as of May 4, 2020.
· Cottage Health is caring for a total of 213 patients across all campuses.
· 159 are acute care patients; 214 acute care beds remain available.
· In surge planning, capacity is identified for adding 270 acute care beds.
· Of the 159 patients, 16 patients are on ventilators; 59 ventilators remain available (adult, pediatric and neonatal ventilators)
· Of the 159 patients, 18 are in isolation with COVID-19 symptoms; 7 are confirmed COVID-19 positive.
· Of 18 patients in isolation, 7 patients are in critical care.
· Cottage has collected 4,162 cumulative test samples: 223 resulted in positive, 3,885 resulted in negative, and 54 are pending. In most of these tests, patients did not require hospital admission.
SLO and Ventura Counties
As of Monday, San Luis Obispo County reports 202 confirmed cases. Of those 156 have recovered, 40 are quarantined at home, 5 are hospitalized with 3 in the ICU, and there has been 1 death.
Ventura County reports a total of 577 cases. Of those, 402 have recovered, 156 are quarantined at home, 23 are hospitalized with 10 in the ICU, and there have been 19 deaths.
PHD should provide information about community transmission. We got days with no cases, the days with 2 or 3, then none. I assume PHD gather info on how people were infected. The information they provide day after day is close to be useless except that we know Santa Barbara isn’t a hot spot. What does the low case say about spread of virus here? Are we good now? How about testing some public places where people gather, shopping areas for example? This low rate burner doesn’t support opening up or shutting down.
The cases picked up because the weather was nice and people started getting careless. Give it a few days and it will double, then continue doubling.
Is there a breakdown of the locations of the new cases?
I wish PHD comes with a more convincing, at least another way to call this a win. Summarizing daily statistics with such low but persistent case numbers doesn’t say much either way. They should get out of the offices and collect data.
A [fairly] young new couple moved in next door to me – maybe in their 30s or so. The first night they moved in they had another couple/few people over – and tonight again they have someone over and they are hanging out having a good old time on their back patio while we are trying to slow the spread. Any one of them could b asymptomatic and now have added more vectors to spread this. Amazing how selfish people are, while those of us are following what we are asked to do even though it’s uncomfortable and not fun. And while they have their fun – if someone gets infected that person may not have so much fun. So that’s why the cases keep spreading and it makes me fee resentful to think, after all this sacrifice to stay in, limit contact people like this are keeping this spreading around.
You don’t like it – stay indoors away from them.
Chances are better they are not asymptomatic (as you say) vs having the virus.
Saw this happen in Old Town Goleta. Huge party – 30 people.
Or A-1588648241 you could just do us all a favor and go test your chances – I don’t mind speeding up darwinism.
Let me assure you – these cases will all start doubling every few days. Bye protesters.
Cases picked up? Not they didn’t, on Monday April 20 there was 22 new cases. They’ve gone down.
Oh don’t worry we are staying far away as they are likely contaminated. HOwever other innocent people out there don’t know – and they could be spreading it to others all over the place. Selfish and irresponsible members of society.
Oh don’t worry we are staying far away as they are likely contaminated. HOwever other innocent people out there don’t know – and they could be spreading it to others all over the place. Selfish and irresponsible members of society.
Yes they’ve gone down during social distancing and staying home – because of that – but in the last few days since more ppl milled about we had another albeit small spike – likely b/c many places are still closed.
I’ve also seen ppl have their personal trainers come out to their homes for sessions. Imagine – the personal trainer depending on how many people he or she is seeing [illegally and btw stealing business from people who are acting lawfully] – goes to one house then another – another potential vector of spread.
We were “social distancing” on Monday April 20 and there were 22 new cases. Now two Monday’s later and there only 12. That is DOWN if one knows how to count. But you obviously are ignoring that fact for your own weird reason. Phase 3 here we come!
You’re never going to flatten a graph of total cases, both active and recovered, until there are zero new cases, and that graph will never curve down from flat. What’s meaningful, and what you want to watch, is a graph of new cases by time. We’re lucky in that good adherence to social distancing has kept our numbers small, so the fluctuations in new cases from day to day really jump around. Once the idiot ochlocrats mess up social distancing, the number of new cases will climb dramatically after about 14 days.
420722: Sure, that’s true if you take the granular approach and pick just two data points, April 20 and May 4. But we’ve had much lower numbers in between, with the last several days having new case numbers as follows (past 6 days): 2, 4, 8, 11, 10, and 12. That’s concerning. With last weekend’s inundation of local beaches (mostly by outsiders) and a median of 5 days incubation, we may just be seeing the results that little experiment beginning to manifest.
It’s too bad we have to use the term “flattening” to describe things these days. I wish more people had more education in mathematics, calculus in this case, because the concept of inflection points (2nd derivative = 0) and “flattening” (first derivative = 0) would be less prone to subjectively based arguments.
CSF: last time someone mentioned they noticed the numbers go up after the weekend YOU said it yourself that it was due to backlog and it “happens all the time”.
Nice graph. The health department’s data are presented in pieces in separate pages. It’s pain in the neck to see a trend in a meaningful graph. I’m not of a fan of the department’s average barebone work. In Santa Barbara city area, the curve is flat in the sense that we don’t have much a curve to start with, a month ago. Social distancing is very helpful. But at the end of the day, do we have confidence community transmission isn’t here? With testing so inadequate and transmission routes unknown, the health department has a blind eye and the steady low case numbers say nothing about what’s out there and danger of opening up. I wish the department does more proactive work on data.
I hope I don’t have a busybody like you near me. You have no idea how they’re conducting themselves inside, social distancing, washing hands, etc. You don’t need to wear PPE or avoid all interaction to stop the spread. With very basic steps, such as washing your hands regularly, not sneezing/coughing around others and if so into a tissue, not touching your face, etc., basic steps that the scientific experts have been repeating since the beginning, you can prevent the spread. You don’t know what they are doing inside that home and you shouldn’t, it’s their private space.
God forbid someone try’s to put food on their kids table and keep a roof of their heads.
Thank you for the Chart. It’s bad news for SB, great for Goleta.
And Sweden seems to be the shining star right now and they didn’t put any draconian lock down measures in place so I put it back on you @8:42 it is not “either-or” it is not “either” people stay at home “or” people will die.
SAM THE DOG when ppl are hanging out outside and broadcasting their selfishness – when no one else in the neighborhood is – it’s all of our business. And yes – one person they had over one night WAS coughing and we all could hear it. All of us here have outside areas, decks, patios and these are the only ones hanging out very obviously, very much in everyone’s faces. So yeah – that then gives us the right to comment. If they don’t want others to know – keep it on the down low.
SAM THE DOG when ppl are hanging out outside and broadcasting their selfishness – when no one else in the neighborhood is – it’s all of our business. And yes – one person they had over one night WAS coughing and we all could hear it. All of us here have outside areas, decks, patios and these are the only ones hanging out very obviously, very much in everyone’s faces. So yeah – that then gives us the right to comment. If they don’t want others to know – keep it on the down low.
SAM THE DOG where did I say they were inside? They were OUTSIDE and ppl coughing. And, even if they were inside – if you have shared walls and you can clearly hear then maybe they should be quieter about their selfishness. No one else in our close quarters neighborhood is doing this.
If they were hanging around outside, even less of a cause for your concern.
STD – Sweden’s tally at this point: 23,216 positive with 2,854 deaths No much of a shining star.
As you already know Mac, comparing deaths to postive tests is not indicative of anything when you’re only testing the very sick.
STD – Then just look at total deaths, and compare to all the countries around them. You’re a master at only seeing what you want to see, and ignoring all facts to the contrary. Repeating reactionary shibboleths does not make them true, regardless of Goebbels’ observations.
Tree: On that we can agree.