KHTS Radio Santa Clarita Radio – Santa Clarita News
47 additional Santa Clarita Valley coronavirus cases have been confirmed Wednesday afternoon, bringing the case total to nearly 4,000, officials said.
As of Wednesday, a total of 3,975 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. These include:
- 1,878 in the City of Santa Clarita*
- 69 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- 1,840 in Castaic*
- 12 in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 97 in Stevenson Ranch
- 31 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
- 39 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- Four in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- One in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
- One in the unincorporated areas of Saugus/Canyon Country
- Three in unincorporated Sand Canyon
*As of Tuesday, July 21, 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.
See Related: Canyon Country Gym Continues To Operate Indoors Despite County Directive To Close
Additionally, 40 cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton as well as 17 in Agua Dulce.
An analysis of available data indicates that as of Tuesday, July 21, less than half (approximately 46.1 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 Monday, Henry Mayo has conducted 4,793 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 555 have tested positive, and 339 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
There are 26 patients in the hospital as of Monday, an increase of three since July 15, while 151 patients have been discharged since the hospital’s first case was reported in March, according to Moody.
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.
See All Coronavirus Coverage: Coronavirus Coverage – COVID-19 Map
Sponsored Articles
KHTS FM 98.1 and AM 1220 is Santa Clarita’s only local radio station. KHTS mixes in a combination of news, traffic, sports, and features along with your favorite adult contemporary hits. Santa Clarita news and features are delivered throughout the day over our airwaves, on our website and through a variety of social media platforms. Our KHTS national award-winning daily news briefs are now read daily by 34,000+ residents. A vibrant member of the Santa Clarita community, the KHTS broadcast signal reaches all of the Santa Clarita Valley and parts of the high desert communities located in the Antelope Valley. The station streams its talk shows over the web, reaching a potentially worldwide audience. Follow @KHTSRadio on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Correction—-I think ….wouldn’t “Community Cases” be —353…Inmate cases —1811
For a Grand Total of 2164 ?
You counted inmate cases of 1811 in both of Castaic and Valencia’s #’s
Flashback to March 23rd. when there were ten (10) cases in the SCV. Now they are counted in multiples of ten with nearly 4,000 cases right here in our valley alone. We were so concerned back then wanting to know who and where they were, remember? Now with cases at a tsunami-like number this virus remains unchecked yet we are having discussions about reopening schools and everything else we miss in our lives. Our lives… are they still worth protecting? What lessons have we learned? Any?
Not that I’m disputing your message—but the numbers don’t add up—the 1811 count for (Pitchess and North County Correctional Facility) is also reflected in both Castaic’s and City of Santa Clarita’s numbers …
Shouldn’t the correct numbers be :
Community Cases : 353
Inmate Cases : 1811
Total Cases: 2164
Maybe I’m reading it wrong….
You couldn’t get a test even if you tried a few months ago. Anyone can get a test done now and the doctor receives bonuses or incentives for testing people. BIG difference from March!!!
Companies are testing employees, elective surgery patients are required to test. BIG difference from March. Of course you will see more positives with the amount of testing.
Testing does NOT create positive cases it identifies them. Surge in cases = reopening too soon, and all the Covidiots who continue to insist this is a hoax. Well congratulations, CA we NOW have more positive cases than ANY state.
No doctor receives bonuses for ordering tests. Taking care of a very sick covid patient costs hundreds of thousands of dollars…Medicare will give about 20,000 for a covid case…Covid is bankrupting our hospitals. No one is getting rich from this. Doctors are not that stupid. The people who are dying from covid in various hospitals around here are regular people doing regular stuff. Vegas trips, Morongo casino, house parties, bars… these people are in their 20’s and then go home and infect their parents and grandparents. This takes a month .. all this data represents cases from 1 month ago. It’s too late folks…. corona virus is all over the community.
Based on the SCV population (290,000), and minus the prison system cases, here’s the percentage of SCV residents who’ve had confirmed ‘rona cases since March:
.69%
I used slightly rounded numbers: SCV population 290,000, 4,000 confirmed cases (as stated in this article), 2,000 cases in the prison system (deducted from the SCV confirmed cases). Reason for deducting prison cases is that I want to know what a regular citizen of SCV would encounter on a day-to-day basis, a prison population lives under very different confined conditions.
Keep in mind these are TOTAL numbers since March, this is not the percentage of infected people you would encounter when leaving your home; that percentage is infinitely smaller. Granted there are those asymptomatic folks, and clearly MANY cases that were not confirmed, but also consider false positives which is definitely a thing … there is no way to quantify those numbers.
Not making any conclusions on anything here, just providing some data to put things in perspective and hopefully alleviate some fear.
… and deaths in SCV are .01% of the population.
SCV population 290,000, SCV ‘rona deaths 42.
42:290000*100 =
(42*100):290000 =
4200:290000 = 0.01
Cases in California- 423,000
Population of California?? 50,000,000??
Did not exclude prisons, even though you said they dont count, because there is no way to know that data.
What does that come out to?
0.84%
I guess Santa Clarita is not that far off compared to all of California. Probably better to let the experts speak the facts.