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The 15th Santa Clarita coronavirus, COVID-19, case has been confirmed Wednesday, officials said
Officials with Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital confirmed that two additional individuals had tested positive for COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
There have been 11 confirmed cases in the hospital, with four other cases confirmed at other medical centers, according to the Department of Public Health.
The breakdown of coronavirus in the Santa Clarita Valley includes two cases in Castaic, one in Canyon Country, 10 in the City of Santa Clarita and two in Stevenson Ranch.
The additional cases join over 662 cases of COVID-19 that have been reported within Los Angeles County as of Tuesday afternoon. A total of 11 people have died from coronavirus, including the first minor under the age of 18 in the United States.
See Related: 12th Santa Clarita Coronavirus COVID-19 Case Confirmed
As of Tuesday, the Santa Clarita coronavirus case breakdown was 12 total cases. The county report lists two cases in Castaic, one in Canyon Country, seven cases in the city of Santa Clarita and two cases in Stevenson Ranch.
Due to privacy laws, the names and exact locations of the coronavirus patients have not been released.
There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus. However, as a reminder, CDC always recommends everyday preventive actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases, including:
- Avoid close contact with people.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
- Stay home when you are sick.
- Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe.
- Follow CDC’s recommendations for using a facemask.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
- Stay at home if you are a “non-essential” worker
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Ed. Note: This story has been updated to included the 15th confirmed case.
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It’s here people time to wear those masks or bandanas for awhile and wash or sanitize those Hands after you touch anything. A 17 yo died in Lancaster from it he got it from his Uber driver dad who drove lots of people everywhere so stay safe. And no it’s not the Presidents fault it’s the fault of some very unsanitary conditions by another country who just doesn’t care for the health of their people.
Don’t believe fake news. The new is now retracting they’re statement about the 18yo dying of coronavirus. The person had other health issues.
The 17 yr old had leukemia so there was more to the story than the media portrays.
Its his fault that he called it a hoax and didn’t take the necessary steps to get ahead of this thing! And he’s still trying to downplay the seriousness of it by saying he hopes to see the churches packed on Easter, and tweeting that the media wants businesses closed because they want to defeat him! Everything is about him,he doesn’t care that people are getting sick and dying, and you don’t have to be in the medical field to see that it’s spreading!
Does the reporter know that most of Canyon Country is in the city of Santa Clarita. If he is going to single out one area in Santa Clarita then please list the areas of the other cases. Are they in Newhall, Saugus or Valencia.?
It’s based on the info the county shares every day, and the county counts CC differently from the rest of SCV for some reason if you read their tweets. Maybe it’s for the part that’s outside city limits?
I was just going to post this. Thank you.
I live in Saugus and we were annex to city on Santa Clarita. Can you specify Saugus count and Newhall? or are they included as City of Santa Clarita?
I hope the severity of this is sinking in. 150-200 new cases a day in L.A. County. 1 In 5 is hospitalized. Do the math. We will not have nearly enough resources, especially beds, ventilators, etc for severly ill. Not enough Dr’s if they are all getting sick. L.A. is on projection to join Italy and New York. Look up the statistics for Italy and New York. They’re not good. This is not the flu!!!!
Its his fault that he called it a hoax and didn’t take the necessary steps to get ahead of this thing! And he’s still trying to downplay the seriousness of it by saying he hopes to see the churches packed on Easter, and tweeting that the media wants businesses closed because they want to defeat him! Everything is about him,he doesn’t care that people are getting sick and dying, and you don’t have to be in the medical field to see that it’s spreading!
This virus originated in CHINA. President Donald Trump took it very seriously from the beginning. 10 days after the first case he instinctively closedown travel from China. He he had not taken this step the USA would be in far worst shape. President Trump is doing a great job for the AMERICAN people. DON’T believe the FAKE news media.
Yes it is totally his fault. Here’s the evidence
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/03/trump-statements.jpeg
Stop blaming the president we already know that he isn’t the man we need, now is time for us to get up and United, and do something about it, we are smart people we know what is that it needs to be done, i know we need the money, but is up to us to do what is need to be done, the problem here is the persons who are out there doing things and living they life as nothing is going on, social distance is one of the keys to do to stay healthy, there is China they are doing such a great job about it, WE CAN DO IT but only if we want to, is up to us.
The President did not say Covid-19 was a hoax he said that the Democrats were Politicizing this as their new hoax against him.
Here are some of the greatest hits of the Trump administration’s bungled coronavirus responses—so far:
Trump picked Vice President Mike Pence—well known for allowing an outbreak of HIV to rapidly spread in Indiana during his time as governor—to head the government’s coronavirus task force. As governor, Pence initially refused to allow clean-needle exchange programs, which experts argued were necessary to prevent further outbreaks of HIV. He also spearheaded funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, which led to the closing of the last HIV testing facility in a county at the center of the outbreak.
Last month, in its 2021 budget, the Trump administration announced proposed cuts that would reduce CDC funding by 16 percent and slash $3 billion for global health programs.
In 2018, the National Security Council’s global pandemic director left his post abruptly; then his entire team was disbanded by former national security adviser John Bolton. The Trump administration has yet to refill any of those positions, leaving huge vulnerabilities in our global pandemic preparedness.
In press conferences and tweets, Trump has been downplaying the severity of the coronavirus. In remarks he made on February 26, he claimed that the number of cases was declining in the United States (the CDC says it’s highly likely it will continue to spread); he claimed that the fatality rate for coronavirus was lower than the flu (it isn’t), and a vaccine was coming quickly (the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says it will take at least a year).
Fewer than 500 people have been tested for the coronavirus in the United States, compared with 13,911 in the UK and 1,126 in the Ontario province of Canada alone as of March 2. Experts blame delays in rolling out the test on account of a faulty component in the original test, which has led to an inadequate supply of tests nationwide. As of Sunday, an unnamed HHS official told Politico that the defects had been resolved. That hasn’t been enough to prevent an HHS investigation into the delayed national response.
The CDC failed to update testing guidelines to include more people as the disease has spread globally.
The first instance of coronavirus contracted within the United States took four days to confirm after a delayed response for requests for disease testing from the CDC, according to medical staff at UC Davis Medical Center in California. They blamed the center’s narrow specifications for distributing coronavirus testing kits; the organization allegedly took days to approve the medical center’s request.
Trump isn’t the only member of his administration spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. Last Tuesday, Trump’s National Economic Council director, Larry Kudlow, told CNBC “we have contained” the virus, despite CDC officials warning that the virus is likely to continue to spread. In a Meet the Press interview Sunday, Vice President and coronavirus head Mike Pence refused to refute Donald Trump Jr.’s claim that Democrats wanted the virus to spread and kill Americans.
In 2018, the Trump Administration cut 80 percent of CDC funding used to fight global pandemics. The funding support, which went to training local health professionals and bolstering emergency response across 49 countries, was reduced to just 10 nations. China wasn’t included in the revised list.
Last October, the Trump Administration opted to discontinue a Bush-era program expanded under Obama—called “Predict”—that monitored the threat of animal-born diseases to humans, the possible origin point of the novel coronavirus. The program was behind the discovery of more than 1,000 viruses, including an Ebola strain.
During a standoff last week on a tarmac in Japan, the State Department pushed to allow 14 coronavirus-infected Americans to board a pair of flights back to the United States. The CDC fought back back, arguing that bringing them back—especially considering the planes carried 300 other passengers who’d tested negative for the disease—would pose an unnecessary risk and more than double the number of infected in the country. In the end, the State Department got its way.
According to a federal government whistleblower, Department of Health and Human Services personnel have been improperly tending to potentially infected Americans who were in Asia during the outbreak. The whistleblower alleged that the HHS workers, without proper training or protective equipment, operated alongside CDC personnel donned in hazmat suits when seeing patients, and potentially exposed themselves to infection. The whistleblower later indicated that they were unjustly reassigned as retribution for speaking out.
Without clearance from local health centers, federal health officials planned to fly coronavirus patients from a California air base to a FEMA facility on a decommissioned army base in Anniston, Alabama. The mayor of Anniston, “shocked by the lack of planning,” told HHS officials that the FEMA buildings lacked the medical capability to operate as a quarantine zone. On February 23, the administration dropped the plans. Costa Mesa, California, is also fighting federal plans to transport patients to the city.
As the crisis unfolded last week, one-third of the coronavirus task force took time off to speak at the Conservative Political Action Convention. The list of CPAC attendees also on the task force included White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, Larry Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, HHS secretary Alex Azar, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien. Vice President Pence, who heads the task force, told CPAC attendees that the risk of infection “remains low.”
Despite reassurances from Trump officials at CPAC and beyond that rumors of the coronavirus have been greatly exaggerated, Cuccinelli indicated during his CPAC speech that the US might tighten borders as a preventative public health measure, despite far fewer cases in Mexico and Canada, where two and 27 cases have been reported, respectively.
Pence and his office have taken control of all public government statements on the coronavirus, which now go through his press secretary, Katie Miller. Because of this move, the CDC and the National Institutes of Health can no longer share their own research, and a Pence office stamp of approval is required to broadcast independent information.
When a CDC–distributed coronavirus test kit incorrectly gave a negative result, an infected patient was allowed to leave a San Diego hospital. The patient, who was flown back to the US from China, rejoined the quarantine tank of repatriated citizens for an entire day, before being brought back to the hospital.
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