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131 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed within the Santa Clarita Valley over the past four days as of Monday afternoon, for a total of over 3,300 cumulative COVID-19 cases.
As of Monday afternoon, a total of 3,326 cumulative cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Santa Clarita Valley since testing began in March. These include:
- 1,345 in the City of Santa Clarita*
- 50 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country
- 1,799 in Castaic*
- Six in the unincorporated areas of Saugus
- 76 in Stevenson Ranch
- 13 in the unincorporated areas of Valencia
- 33 in the unincorporated areas of Val Verde
- Three in the unincorporated areas of Newhall
- One in the unincorporated areas of Bouquet Canyon
*As of Sunday, July 5, officials had recorded 1,314 cumulative cases among prisoners at the North County Correctional Facility, and 491 at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center. Those cases are counted in both the City of Santa Clarita and Castaic totals.
Note: No Santa Clarita specific coronavirus case increases were available for July 3-4, 2020. A total of 105 cases were reported for the weekend on Sunday, July 5.
Additionally, 29 cases have been confirmed in nearby Acton, as well as 14 in Agua Dulce.
The delay in reporting over the weekend stemmed from the county’s work to update COVID-19 reporting and monitoring systems, according to public health officials.
Public health officials are not releasing recovery numbers by city, according to the department.
Due to testing procedures, these numbers are only the confirmed cases, which officials say could be much lower than the actual number of coronavirus cases in Santa Clarita.
As of Wednesday, Henry Mayo has conducted 3,273 COVID-19 tests. Of those, 349 have tested positive, and 151 tests are still pending with Henry Mayo, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
Some local patients are tested multiple times, creating a discrepancy in the numbers, according to hospital officials.
There are 19 patients in the hospital as of Wednesday, while 110 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.
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Because people wear masks only covering their mouths but not their noses. Because restaurant workers do the same. This is why cases go up. People can’t be counted on to follow a simple rule.
According to a recent statement by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health,
Many protesters felt the need for protesting outweighed the risks or consequences of the pandemic. This has puts disease “modelers” in the position of considering the amount of viral transmission the protesters are likely to have caused.
The WHO recent guidelines read that when to wear a face mask may seem confusing to Americans who have been advised by our own CDC to wear cloth face masks in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
WHO’s “guidance is if you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19,”.
I didn’t see anything in the press release about restaurants, or talking on phones with masked not being properly worn,
Again, there’s more to this than were being told today,
Tomorrow’s another day
Some people think they need to take off their masks in public to talk on their cell phones, as if they can’t be heard through the mask. If you can’t talk with the mask on then don’t take the call. I don’t get why people don’t understand that we all need to act as if we are all infected while in public.
Masks offer at best a false sense of security. Think about it, if you are in an environment contaminated with the virus, your clothes, hands, and everything else is contaminated, since it is aerosolized. Unless you are decontaminated from head to toe, when you remove you mask each breath you take is full of the virus. A mask is only a percentage effective at best and that is only in ideal conditions. Everything you come in contact with has potential to be contaminated. A false sense of security is often the straw that causes failure to be vigilant. The infected folks with symptoms consisting of sneezing and coughing are the folks that should be wearing masks and reducing social exposure, to reduce the virus aerosolization and infecting others,
By the way,
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Last updated June 30, 2020 at 4:44
What remains open statewide according to Dr. Barbara Ferrer public health directives;
Essential services will remain open, such as:
Walmart,
Gas stations
Pharmacies
Food: Grocery stores, farmers markets, food banks, convenience stores, take-out and delivery restaurants
Banks
Laundromats/laundry services
Childcare
Shopping malls
Libraries
Bookstores
Jewelry stores
Toy stores
Clothing and shoe stores
Home and furnishing stores
Sporting goods stores
Florists
Pet grooming
Dog walking
Car washes
Appliance repair
Residential and janitorial cleaning
Places of worship
Plumbing
Essential state and local government will also remain open, including offices that provide government programs and services.
Yah, go ahead and wear your public health directors approved scarf or facial covering,
IMO, There’s more to this than meets the eye folks.
Seats belts aren’t 100% effective neither are vaccines, antibiotics, pregnancy tests, birth control methods, surgeries, treatments, rehab, etc., Point is NOTHING is perfect, but that doesn’t mean we stop trying does it? WEARING a MASK is BETTER than not wearing a mask; it is the easiest and least invasive practice WE ALL CAN DO.
Do not make perfect the enemy of the good.
Thanks for the education Alice,
We have had 3 sets of protestors: “Let us reopen,” BLM, and police support demonstrators.