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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 32,700 residents have recovered from COVID-19 as of Sunday. Data reported by the Public Health Department...

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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 include adolescents 12 through 15 years of age is a significant step in the fight against the COVID-19 pa...

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 were related to student athletes, unsanctioned parties and social events also have been a source of...

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 140 cases still considered infectious on Wednesday. No additional deaths were reported on Wednesday...