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By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  June 4, 2021 | 8:13 p.m. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) on Friday released revised COVID-19 workplace recommendations, which are expected to go into effect no later than June 15 if approved. “Last year, the board adopted health and safety standards to protect workers from COVID-19,” the California Department of Industrial Relationssaid in a statement. “The standards did not consi...

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Housing and Development Newsletter Of the new cases reported Thursday, five were from the Santa Maria Valley and two were from Santa Barbara.  Five of the new cases were among residents between the ages of 18 and 29, one resident who tested positive was between the ages of 30 and 49, and one was between the ages of 50 and 69. As of Wednesday, just over 51% of all eligible Santa Barbara County residents were fully vaccinated, and just over 43% of the entire county’s population was fully vacci...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  May 25, 2021 | 4:15 p.m. Santa Barbara County remained in the orange tier of the state’s tiered COVID-19 reopening framework on Tuesday despite the Public Health Department’s expectations of meeting the yellow tier criteria for the first week. The county was just shy of meeting the yellow tier case rate criteria as it reported an adjusted case rate of two daily new cases per 100,000 people on Tuesday, but that number ne...

By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT_Holland May 16, 2021 | 4:09 p.m. There were 13 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported Sunday in Santa Barbara County, according to the county Public Health Department. The county has confirmed 34,391 residents have been infected with the coronavirus since the first positive case was reported in March 2020, the online status report released Sunday showed. Of the community cases, which exclude Lompoc federal prison inmates, more than 32,70...

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By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  May 10, 2021 | 6:36 p.m. Children ages 12 and up — in Santa Barbara County and across the country — are now eligible to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency-use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine to include children ages 12 to 15. “The FDA’s expansion of the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to inclu...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  May 7, 2021 | 7:50 p.m. For the past two weeks, Santa Barbara County residents younger than age 18 have returned the most positive COVID-19 test results, but only 40% of that age group have already received the vaccine, Public Health Officer Henning Ansorg shared at Friday’s county COVID-19 press briefing. There have been several outbreaks at various high schools across the county, Ansorg said. While most of the outbreaks...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  May 5, 2021 | 7:39 p.m. Santa Barbara County Public Health officials reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, a daily number that hasn’t been that low in more than three weeks. There have been 137 new cases reported during the past week, averaging 19.6 new cases per day. That is 23% less than the week prior when the county was averaging 25.4 new cases per day, according to data tracking done by Noozhawk. There were...