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29 additional Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases have been confirmed Friday, with an additional 2,885 cases being confirmed within Los Angeles County, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH).
A total of 2,122 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19 throughout L.A. County, according to LADPH Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer.
Testing results are available for over 1,465,000 individuals as of Friday, with a positivity rate of nine percent, according to public health officials.
62 additional deaths have been reported within the County Friday, for a total of 4,047 people who have died due to coronavirus in Los Angeles County.
As of Friday, a total of 3,807 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include:
- 1,743 in the City of Santa Clarita*
- 61 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- 1,833 in Castaic*
- 11 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 88 in Stevenson Ranch
- 28 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
- 36 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- Four in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- One in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- Two in unincorporated Sand Canyon
*As of Thursday, July 16, officials had recorded 1,318 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 493 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are counted in both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
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Additionally, 37 cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 15 in Agua Dulce.
An analysis of available data indicates that as of Thursday, July 16, approximately 47.9 percent of all cumulative cases in and around the Santa Clarita Valley can be attributed to the inmate population at the North County Correctional Facility and the Pitchess Detention Center.
Public health officials are not releasing recovery numbers by city, according to the department.
As of Wednesday, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has conducted 4,482 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 496 have tested positive, and 458 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson.
There are 23 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, while 140 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to the hospital. This is an increase since the last reported number of inpatients on Monday, July 13, when there were 15 patients in the hospital.
A majority of all deaths in the county had underlying health conditions, according to public health, further encouraging those with medical issues to stay home, if possible.
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29 people!!!!! Most of whom have tested multiple times. So it’s much lower number. ??lets keep up this circus until November.
Patients admitted in hospitals are tested daily and some multiple times a day. Let that sink in when you think about POSITIVE test results. We need accurate numbers not inflated numbers.
In the few days before Santa Claruta had over 100 new cases a day and at this point each person infects about 1.5 more people. The circus was Newsom opening up faster and faster, ignoring his own opening guidelines, and not seeing how each phase went before going into the next phase. Look at what is happening everywhere that has opened. Hospital beds running out, medications to help the length and severity running low, doctors and nurses running on fumes. This is no joke. It damages the lungs, heart, kidneys, brain etc. Everyone please mask. I read a story where two hair stylists were working for weeks with COVID and didn’t know it. They wore masks and so did their customers. They did not transmit the virus to any of the customers. Everyone argues they don’t work, but emerging studies show otherwise. Your mask protects me and my mask protects you. I wear one to protect others and the same respect should be given to me. If we can all do this, scientists show the virus can go away in as little as 6 weeks. It’s the only way we have right now to open safely and avoid a worst case scenario, where there aren’t enough resources for all the people that need them. Everyone wants to complain about them, but the rise in cases is being caused by people not following protocols and that is what has us back at the beginning. You can’t want to open up, but not follow guidelines. You can’t have it both ways. Our healthcare system can’t handle it!
*Santa Clarita, not Claruta
Jul, you are entirely correct. Although governor Newsom was proactive in his measures taken for the general well being early on the pressure put on him to reopen must have been enormous. The federal administration says that science should not stand in the way of schools reopening reopening. Although a clear example of the incompitentcy of the Trump administration, it adds to the confusion. Quoting White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh MacEnany, “The science should not stand in the way of this.” Think what that means. It may as well be the motto for this disastrous presidency. No wonder so many are still not realizing the seriousness of this killer pandemic. Unless we all cooperate and work together, as citizens of other counties have done, we will continue losing ground and more misery will ensue.
Denny
Check the full context of what was said by the press secretary, she meant because science is on our side, it doesn’t stand in the way of re- opening the schools:
“The science should not stand in the way of this,” she added, saying it is “perfectly safe” to fully reopen all classrooms.
McEnany then claimed “science is on our side,” citing one study that said the risk of critical illness is less than the seasonal flu in children. She also quoted former Stanford Neuroradiology Chief Dr. Scott Atlas.
“We encourage localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools,” she continued.
Denny,
The quote “the science should not stand in the way of this” is taken out of context. The full text shows that she meant that science is not in the way of opening the schools as the science is on the side of opening schools, you can see the entire press conference and see that the news has taken this quote out of context:
“The science should not stand in the way of this. And as Dr. Scott Atlas said — I thought this was a good quote — ‘Of course, we can [do it]. Everyone else in the… Western world, our peer nations are doing it. We are the outlier here,’” McEnany said.
“The science is very clear on this, that — you know, for instance, you look at the JAMA Pediatrics study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than that of seasonal flu,” she continued.”The science should not stand in the way of this. And as Dr. Scott Atlas said — I thought this was a good quote — ‘Of course, we can [do it]. Everyone else in the… Western world, our peer nations are doing it. We are the outlier here,’” McEnany said.
“The science is very clear on this, that — you know, for instance, you look at the JAMA Pediatrics study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than that of seasonal flu,” she continued.
“The science is on our side here, and we encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools,” McEnany said. and we encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science, open our schools,” McEnany said.
Thank you, Jul.
Jul,
Truth is so inconvenient for the deniers, conspirators and the ignorant. Listen up people: Mask it or casket.
If my voice had no power you wouldn’t try so hard to silence it. You are a sniffling coward, scared of the truth, a cloth mask and progress.
You already know this, Alice- Facts are not their friend, so they attack whomever states them in an attempt to turn it, immediately followed by by making stuff up to belittle; in other words they are insignificant bullies with nothing of educational or intellectual value to add to the discussion.
The Jail should be its own sub-category of castaic! Can you change your reporting format to that?
Castaic – 22
Pitchess/NCCF – 1811*
*Inmates at Detention Center.
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know!