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By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT Holland
January 15, 2021
| 9:12 p.m.
With a post-holiday COVID-19 surge unfolding, the spread of the virus in Santa Barbara County is the highest of all California counties.
Speaking at the weekly press briefing on Friday, Santa Barbara County Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso explained the reasoning behind that latest data and how the county is in dire straits amid the raging pandemic.
“The rate of COVID-19 spreading is higher in Santa Barbara County than any other jurisdiction in California,” Do-Reynoso said. “These are grim numbers extremely, extremely concerning.”
The county s effective reproductive number, also called the R-effective, is the average number of people that each infected person will pass the virus onto, and it represents the rate that COVID-19 is spreading, according to the California Department of Public Health. The average R-effective number uses estimates from Covid Act Now, the
Hazardous homeless camp cleaned up right before Montecito high tides wash it out
An emergency cleanup of abandoned homeless camps has taken place on the Montecito coastline prior to the extreme high tides. (Photo: John Palminteri)
An emergency cleanup of abandoned homeless camps has taken place on the Montecito coastline prior to the extreme high tides. (Photo: John Palminteri)
An emergency cleanup of abandoned homeless camps has taken place on the Montecito coastline prior to the extreme high tides. (Photo: John Palminteri)
An emergency cleanup of abandoned homeless camps has taken place on the Montecito coastline prior to the extreme high tides. (Photo: John Palminteri)