Edhat Staff
By edhat staff
State officials announced Tuesday the Southern California regional stay-at-home order will be extended until mid-January.
Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly stated the order will continue “until the ICU projections are above or equal to 15%.”
The intensive care unit (ICU) availability within the Southern California region is currently 0% and has stayed that way for the past two weeks.
The Southern California Region includes San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, Kern, Inyo, and San Bernadino counties.
The order was initially issued by Governor Newsom earlier this month to slow the spread of COVID-19. When a region reached 15% or lower of ICU availability, the lockdown was enacted. For Southern California, this took place on December 6 to be reviewed in three weeks.
The ICU availability has not improved as health officials blame indoor and holiday gatherings for the surging spread of the virus that has caused some hospitals in Los Angeles County to divert care while patients are placed in hallways and even a gift shop, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Ghaly stated the lockdown will continue until January 16, although state officials will regularly review the data and may lift the order sooner if numbers improve.
Santa Barbara County’s Board of Supervisors voted earlier this month to ask the state to form a new Central Coast region to only include San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. They stated the Southern California region is too large and will not offer smaller counties the option to earn their way off the shutdown list.
Based on current numbers, Santa Barbara County doesn’t appear to be faring as well as officials hoped as ICU availability has dipped to 6.6% as of Tuesday; at least 15% is needed to be removed from the stay-at-home order.
Dr. Ghaly continued to warn residents to not gather outside of their household, even for the holidays, stating officials “brace to see what levels of transmissions” will come from these discouraging celebrations and expects a post-holiday surge in the next few weeks.
“Things that were a month ago or two months ago a low-risk activity today are really high risks because of the level of Covid that’s circulating in our communities,” said Dr. Ghaly.
Santa Barbara County Data, December 29
Santa Barbara County Public Health officials reported 256 new cases and three deaths on Tuesday.
Two individuals were 70+ years of age, one resided in the City of Santa Barbara and one was from the City of Santa Maria, both had underlying medical conditions and are associated with an outbreak at a congregate living facility. The third individual was 50-69 years of age, resided in Orcutt and had underlying conditions.
There have now been 156 total deaths within the county.
Santa Barbara County now has 1,227 infectious COVID-19 cases that include 127 hospitalizations with 33 of those in the ICU.
More data can be found here: https://publichealthsbc.org/status-reports/
Is anyone really staying at home though?
Just to be clear: “… stay-at-home order will be extended until mid-January.” Would that be January 2022? Or January 2023?
Gov Newscum will not admit his lock down is not working and is in fact having the opposite result. He will be the next Gov writing a book on how to handle the pandemic. He’s got to go!
Not me. Bills to pay.
Two weeks isn’t enough. I want years of this. I want to know that if I take a step outside, I will be shot. Surely we can use drones for that, right? We need to require HEPA filters on every house. Maybe Amazon can sell and install them. We can all do TikTok dances and sell merch for income. Perhaps we can redistribute housing and food based on how many likes and subscribes one can accrue. I JUST WANNA DANCE!
If you really feel he’s handled the pandemic and the state that poorly. Sign the recall Gov. Newsom petition. We did it once before with Gray Davis. Remember he works for us, not the other way around!!!
Hahaha! I needed that comment. That seems to be the consensus in CA. It is ridiculous.
Very poor planning by our leaders, yet again.
To tell people the stay at home was only 3 weeks, “knowing” that cases will appear for 10-14 days after the holidays.
They should told everyone lock down is until mid Jan to begin with instead of stringing people & businesses along.
Poor leadership skills and planning.
Or is our medical experts that are just that foolish to not plan on a lockdown fir 2 weeks after a holiday?
Wait Martin Luther King holiday is coming!
What’s the over/under of a lockdown extension till June?
Seriously, stop with the 3rd grade name calling. It’s ridiculous.
It’s odd that the state is locking its citizens down so they don’t get covid, but letting criminals out of their prison lockdowns so they don’t get covid. Is it just me or is this place run by knuckleheads?
Run by knuckleheads!!!
Sign the recall Gov. Newsom petition. We did it once before with Gray Davis. Remember he works for us, not the other way around!!!
Yeah oops, it’s Newssolini we don’t need to make up silly names for him let’s just act like adults here and accept the fact that we’re keeping hundreds of thousands if not millions of people out of work and school because lockdowns of small businesses are working so well and are preventing home gatherings. I mean duh, obviously you will get covid from getting your haircut or nails done but not from being packed in big box stores with hundreds of people.
TL;DR—The lockdown isn’t working, so they’re extending it.
Loose I hear ya. I’m not really questioning anyone who goes to work. Just seeing evidence of big holiday parties and other things going on that don’t jibe with “locking down” other than places like restaraurants are screwed.
Poor leadership as in local authorities not eforcing?
That’s like comparing NY to Montana when Covid first hit. Amateurish, sophomoric analysis of numbers skewed to protect Donald. Florida still far exceeds California per 100,00 with half the population . Boy I do hope momma is proud.
CSF – That’s another confusing thing. Ruiz said just yesterday it was around 6% availability. The dashboard numbers are completely different. What are they doing to report the different numbers? Were they only talking about Santa Maria availability? Any insight?
GT: I really admire your search for the truth on these numbers. This is not the sort of thread that should be considered controversial and or in violation of any terms. I hope you get some answers and will look forward to reading what you find.
If you are drawing conclusions about the world based on one snapshot data point, that explains a lot of what is going on. See you in April in the vaccine line.
Big ugly, if this is simply a health issue and not a freedom issue, why are cigarettes legal? They kill more annually than covid. Why is fast food legal with so many dying of heart disease and other obesity complications? Why is alcohol legal? Or riding motorcycles? If it is only about health and not about freedom we should just let the government tell us how to live our lives, what food to eat, what activities to participate, etc.
The Santa Barbara Public Health Department’s own Dashboard shows 19% ICU availability for Santa Barbara County as of today (Wednesday, December 30, 2020). It was 21% on Tuesday. Where did the 6.6% come from? Why are we not allowed to point out this discrepancy and ask question?
@ 10:31 AM: Okay, I think I see what you and other’s are looking at, on the Summary tab. However, if you look at the Health Care tab, where they show you the exact amount of beds available, it shows a different availability of staffed adult ICU beds. Apparently, the dashboard’s own data is in disagreement. I’m going with the Health Care tab because it give the exact amount of beds, and the number of them occupied. I’m also not afraid of doing math to check the % available, as opposed to just reading what appears to be an erroneous number from the Summary tab (with no other details given).
Chemicalsuperfreak – did you notice they added three more ICU beds back? Now up to 74. Also – If one adds up the new cases and active cases from the geography tab… totally different numbers. Yesterday “New Cases” added up to 236, but on the main page 256 was being reported. Today, there were 280 new cases reported, but “New Cases” by geography added up to 253. “Active Cases” on the main tab – 1,169, geography tab 1,069. Even the “Total Cases” don’t match between to two data sets – 17,008 on the Cases tab vs. 16,209 on the Geography tab. Maybe I just stink at math.
MountainMan, I did notice the new ICU beds. What value are you getting for current ICU availability? I have 19% today. You’re correct with respect to the numbers not adding up. I did get 256 cases yesterday, which is the number they posted, but today I have 276 and they posted 280. I’m positive that my numbers are accurate for the following reasons. I use a spreadsheet with formulas that auto-calculate these numbers. Furthermore I have built in redundant calculations that will let me know if my data entry is off at any point. Here’s how I do it. I use the Geographic Areas (first item on every daily report) and enter in every city’s Daily Cases, and my spreadsheet sums those. Often my sum does not match the sum at the bottom of their column, which is a big give away that they are wrong and apparently they add and enter that value by hand rather than let a spreadsheet total it for them. I then enter the Testing Status data, and the difference between a given day and the previous day’s positives should be equal to the numbers I get from the sum of Geographic Area Daily Cases, which it always is. This is how I confirm the daily cases—using two separate sets of data. There is never any disagreement between the two set of data, as long as I add the numbers for each city’s Daily Cases and do not rely on their total in that column. I don’t trust their math. This is also why I use the Health Care tab to determine the ICU bed availability, rather than rely on their Summary tab.
But it does keep the Keystone Doks floundering around in search of some sort of conspiracy.
Social distancing and limiting gatherings doesn’t feel like a prison to me.
It’s this mentality of people that think that their rights are being violated so they ignore the orders, and gather without masks, and rebel and guess what happens? It spreads covid and people are sick, the hospital is overwhelmed because people that are hospitalized with Covid need a high level of care and oxygen and it doesn’t just take beds to take care of them, it takes highly skilled STAFF – who are exhausted and traumatized and some have contracted covid themselves. Yeah, let’s blame the Governor though for trying to get people to use their brains and common sense.
Yes Generaltree! Voiceofreason never lives up to their name…
I read the article. It was very interesting. I think you may have not read this part though:
“ It’s long been known that viral infections can cause lasting neurological complications”
No one is denying that the virus is real. Our complaint is that our governor keeps implementing measures that do not work. People are weary. Our life has been completely disrupted and I find it odd that I don’t know a single person that has died of this. I knew several people that suffered through the Montecito mudslides a couple of years ago and one that passed away. It was an awful time for our community. How come my friends, family members and I don’t know a single person that’s passed away from this? I do know plenty of people who tested positive and described it as either a mild cold or a flu at its worst.
First and foremost.. I hope everybody reading is doing well. This is as much a mental and emotional toll as it is physical. Take care of yourself and be good to each other 🙂
Few things that stick out to me here..
1. I think it’s horrible that Edhat is censoring comments they do not agree with. Flat out lies should be flagged as such.. but science is evolving. New Data inputs are constant. Even the CDC has done an about face on topics like herd immunity and masks in just a few months. Most platforms monitor for hate speech / offensive content, etc. (which I think is great to monitor for) but this feels like an overstep. The first amendment is not faring well in 2020. Big Tech censorship (twitter/FB/etc) and media bias is concerning.
2. I’m not a trump supporter, I’m not republican (not that political affiliation should matter) but personally I don’t think the lockdowns are working.. somebody is likely going to quip back with something like “that’s because we’re not locking down hard enough” or “that’s because people break the rules”.. but that’s just not realistic. It’s not a feasible plan – it’s just distraction and political posturing. Please look at this thread (https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1343965548619517952) which assesses total death count by state broken out by degree of lockdown.. the R2 is 0 which means there’s no statistical correlation for lockdowns and virus harm reduction. There is absolutely proof of small business destruction and significant economic hardship though.
I get it.. most people are scared. I get scared too. The virus is real and people are dying with and/or from covid.. I get it. It can feel like a scary world out there. But we can’t let fear consume us.. we can’t be so afraid to die that we forget to live.
3. Incredibly important point.. CDC scientists found covid antibodies from blood samples taken in 2019. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-likely-in-u-s-in-mid-december-2019-cdc-scientists-report-11606782449
Researchers in Italy found widespread antibodies from blood samples in SEPTEMBER 2019. https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing/researchers-find-coronavirus-was-circulating-in-italy-earlier-than-thought-idUSKBN27W1J2
Do you understand how important this is? The virus is Highly contagious.. we all know this.. policy is being made off the assumption that we’re “slowing the spread” but our efforts to control something that was widespread and rampant at least 6 months prior to our original “arrival date” means… we were just fine living the way we were before. Hospitals weren’t overrun in 2019 and the 24/7 news cycle fear p*rn machine was fixated on other click bait. (seriously the internet ad model and mass tech addiction is a different pandemic we should be far more worried about long term.. but I digress)
Again.. I know the virus is real. I know people are suffering from the virus, from the lockdowns, from the mental/emotional trauma we’re enduring. If you’re reading this – I wish you well. I hope you can smile and appreciate what you have today.. maybe put down your phone and look outside.. even better walk outside and appreciate the beauty of our town and this world. Digital smiles/hugs to you all.. hope you can pass that smile on to somebody else in person 🙂
Freak, probably because you are calling people names. Just present your views without the name calling and they will live on forever.
Voice of Reason, coming in hot again with misinformation and drivel. Messing with the stats, complaining because he’s upset about Trump losing and Gavin trying to do his job. Ugh. It’s SO TIRESOME.
Henry’s beach at sunset says no people are not staying home everyone was out seeing a beautiful sunset. No one parking space was available. Life goes on
Looks like the “T” dropped off from in front the third of part of your name again, VOT. Such easily dispatched cherrypicked nonsense. Zzzzzz.
Well, it’s not really his fault that people are stupid and do what they want. I’ve been tracking cases over a few different places. In other locations…where people are ACTUALLY locking down, it’s working. Imagine that.
Costco is huge with a 20% capacity limit, so that you can be physically > 6ft away from everyone. Hairstylists are literally inches from you for 15+ minutes in a much smaller space. Also, grocery shopping is considered essential, haircut, not so much.
I just wanted to confirm that the SB county Sheriffs are indeed constitutional sheriffs. This would make me feel a lot more comfortable. I think we are going to see a lot more of our civil rights being violated such as mandatory Covid vaccines required to enter public places.
Yeah, right. Shovel away with the misinterpretations.
Practice what you preach
Letmego, you must not have been to Costco, Best Buy, Home Depot, target, or the grocery store lately because there isn’t much social distancing occurring.
There is nothing “mis” about the information I posted, I even included the cdc link for you. It is also not cherry picking when we’re looking at what is actually occurring now and over the past month. GT, you kindly provided and example of misinformation to say one state exceeds another per 100k with half the population, as using metrics per 100k levels the varying populations. It is also cherry picking. You also provided a good example of why I’m looking at the here and now and NOT what occurred early on in the pandemic. Finally, very confused to see several political replies and Trump mentions to a post about current covid case statistics provided by the CDC. You guys just can’t get enough of the guy I guess.
A single disputed study by a cancer group in Milan came up with the September date. It has not been verified, and the phylogenetic evidence that everyone else sees shows that SARS-CoV-2 arose around October from an animal vector in China.
People without evidence-based beliefs also seem to equate fact checking with censorship.
VOR. The statistics are a moving living thing. Hotspots change and move. Yes, we are “hotter” than Florida at the moment, but that changes Just as when South Dakota had an outbreak and our numbers in California had gone low. You argue that Florida has done it better – but refuse to look at all of the statistics. So yes, that is cherry picking.
Junior high namecalling. Very mature.
For you it is 2023. For the rest of us, we understand the intent.
Except for those who get COVID and die.
What? Is that some kind of science-based fact? Science hurts some folk’s feelings, so they ignore it to try to feel good – until they don’t, or someone they know doesn’t and maybe dies.
Goletares–it sounds like you are trying to imply that the impacts of Coronavirus have been faked.
Why would you find it odd that you don’t know anyone who died? How many people do you know? The mortality rate I just saw is one death per one thousand. Do you know a thousand people? Probably not.
Just because you can’t personally see, touch, taste or smell something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Why not provide some context for your position? Just stating two facts which seem to compete with each other does not tell the whole story and can lead to a mis-perception of the actual facts.
I’ve been arguing FL is doing it better NOW, and has for some time, but I’ve also said several times they got hit hard and early (and have an older population) when we didn’t know what we know NOW. Most importantly, the mandates we have in place in CA simply aren’t working but carry a price greater than covid to many Californians.
If “we were just fine living the way we were before”, how do you explain the 343,000 deaths?
The only sane path to herd immunity and a return to something approaching normal life is vaccination. In the meantime, shutdowns, masks, and physical distancing are the best weapons against the pandemic, despite any propaganda you see on Twitter.
I don’t think you understand the severity of the pandemic.
Do you think 339,000 deaths in the USA alone are faked?
International death totals are faked?
Other countries are in on the conspiracy?
Too little thinking behind such a comment.
Such fools.
SAIL, No, I’m NOT signing a petition to recall a governor who is doing the best he can. Is he perfect? NO. Did he make a major mistake by going out to that restaurant and acting like the virus isn’t going to affect him? YES. That was poor decision, but the recall effort is being led by a Trump extremist, James Veltmeyer, who just doesn’t like that California is a sanctuary state and he hates liberal politics. NOT SIGNING that petition! Newsom had a very high approval rating early on in the beginning days of the pandemic. Because this thing is politicized, people are going nuts, when it really is a HEALTH issue only, not a freedom issue, and people need to act accordingly.
OOPS, the “lockdown” is not working because so many idiots do not follow protocol. Just last week there was a large group of 20-somethings playing beer pong in the Rose Garden at the Mission. Shameful!
Florida is not locked down, has way more elderly than CA but is not experiencing the same rate of infections…hmmm . Maybe lockdowns don’t work!!
This may explain a lot of these inane complaints about health measures:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/25/covid-19-brain-complications/
I only see them removing stuff that has personal attacks. Including some of my ruder remarks. If they removed all of the fake news that gets posted they would be pretty busy.