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A third death was reported at Henry Mayo and over 226 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed within the Santa Clarita Valley as of Friday afternoon, officials said.
Due to privacy laws, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital is unable to release the age of the patient and if they had any underlying health conditions, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
As of Friday afternoon, there are 188 confirmed cases in the city of Santa Clarita, nine in Castaic, 12 in Stevenson Ranch, 15 in the unincorporated areas of Canyon Country and five in Acton, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
The numbers for the unincorporated portions of Valencia, Saugus, as well as nearby Agua Dulce, have been “suppressed,” meaning there are between one and four confirmed cases for each community, according to public health officials.
This is done to protect patient privacy. Once these locations have five or more confirmed cases, the numbers are expected to be included, according to a public health spokesperson.
No cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the unincorporated areas of Newhall.
Public health officials are not releasing death or recovery numbers by city, according to the department.
Due to testing shortages, these numbers are only the confirmed cases, which officials say could be much lower than the actual number of coronavirus cases in Santa Clarita.
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has administered a total of 497 tests as of Friday, 394 of which have returned negative, and 103 of which have returned positive, according to Patrick Moody, spokesperson for the hospital.
A total of 35 patients are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19, while 13 coronavirus patients have been discharged, according to Moody.
The patients are being treated on a designated floor of the newly-built patient tower, with each patient receiving the correct level of care, without using beds in the Intensive Care Unit, according to the hospital.
Other health centers in the Santa Clarita Valley are also conducting coronavirus tests, according to the L.A. County Department of Public Health.
A Santa Clarita testing center opened on April 8 at the College of the Canyons Valencia campus.
This site is one of several that are up and running around the county, and the first in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Testing is set to run from 7 a.m. to approximately 5 p.m., seven days per week, according to the college.
The Santa Clarita coronavirus testing site is expected to continue at least until June, according to County officials.
Residents are encouraged to stay at home, according to the county public health order.
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Your reporting leaves out some very important figures. When reporting total figures the numbers will be the same or go up, so your alarming headlines raise unwarranted fear. Why don’t you show a chart over the past few weeks by day so a meaningful review can occur – it may not fit your fear headlines
Based on this report…. 9 more cases have been identified since yesterday.
Reporting just 9 cases as a headline won’t produce the fear the media desires. Also known as “clickbait”. We understand this is a serious matter, we are adults. Give us the NEWS in a factual manner, without adding more straws on the camels back.
Try as you might, this pandemic is not media based nor a hoax. Covid-19 has spread to every continent on this planet except Antarctica (where no humans congregate). If keeping the public informed of statistical data in the time of an active pandemic is your idea of fear mongering, then I suppose you should continue to bury your head in the sand and deny the facts. You claim to be an adult, then do yourself a favor and broaden your own research into the facts you seek rather relying on a two-bit local newspaper. There are a multitude of outlets to seek and use that will inform you beyond your own bias. Seek them out, educate yourself and then you might feel differently about this situation that ANYONE with living brain cells could have seen coming months ago.
We all know this pandemic is not media based. However, this pandemic is being willfully media hyped, by keeping the public informed with statistical data that is “knowingly” incomplete and in some cases incorrect as it fits their political agenda, and we all know I’m not talking about a two-bit local newspaper.
Agreed we also need to know who is over it and no longer infected ,do they retest them in 15 days? Keep those masks on out the people you know I like to remind you on that. it goes for places of business as well I see city workers with no masks on out there those are the ones spreading it to each other and their families now.the quicker we stop this spread the quicker we can get back to a semi normal life.