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Santa Barbara County Never Executed Lease for Sears Building COVID-19 Alternate Care Site Public health officials say expansion within the local hospital campuses is now the preferred approach to increasing capacity Santa Barbara County pursued leasing the former Sears building in La Cumbre Plaza as an alternate care site for COVID-19 patients, but did not execute the agreement.  (Giana Magnoli / Noozhawk photo) By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Managing Editor | @magnoli January 12, 2021 | 5:3...

File Photo SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Coronavirus cases have climbed to an all-time high in Santa Barbara County.  Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, the county experienced a tenfold increase in new COVID-19 cases. This week, the Public Health Department needed to extend the axes on its graphs that track virus data. “When we look at COVID data by day, what we see is off the chart increases,” public health director Van Do-Reynoso said. “When I say off the chart, I literally mean off th...

Record-high numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths related to the virus are reported in Santa Barbara County

Cottage Health Vaccinates Its First Frontline Health Care Workers Less than a week after the Pfizer vaccines approval, Cottage Health receives its first shipment of vaccinations and begins to administer them to staff Lorenzo Vasquez, a registered nurse on the COVID unit at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, received one of the first vaccinations for the novel coronavirus on Thursday. (Cottage Health photo) By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  December 17, 2020 | 6...