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Welcome to Noozhawk Asks, a new feature in which you ask the questions, you help decide what Noozhawk investigates, and you work with us to find the answers. Here’s how it works: You share your questions with us in the nearby box. In some cases, we may work with you to find the answers. In others, we may ask you to vote on your top choices to help us narrow the scope. And we’ll be regularly asking you for your feedback on a specific issue or topic. We also expect to work together with the reader who asked the winning questions to find the answer together. Noozhawk’s objective is to come...

Housing and Development Newsletter COVID patients were occupying only 2.6% of the county’s available, staffed ICU beds, according to Noozhawk’s data tracking. The county’s ICU availability rate fell to 25% on Wednesday, down from 29.9% on Tuesday. Of the new cases reported Wednesday, 14 were from Santa Barbara. The Lompoc Valley and the Santa Maria Valley each reported seven new cases, the Goleta Valley logged four, and the Santa Ynez Valley had two. Four cases were pending geographic locations. As of Tuesday, 22.2% of the county’s population was fully vaccinated, according to the cou...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  April 12, 2021 | 6:04 p.m. Cottage Health’s drive-up vaccination clinic at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital has 10,000 COVID-19 vaccination appointments available for the week. The hospital has 8,500 first-dose Pfizer appointments available for its clinic this week, open from Tuesday through Saturday, and an additional 1,500 second-dose appointments, according to Bob Behbehanian, director of marketing and consumerism at Cottage Health. All community members over the age of 16 are eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine, b...

Housing and Development Newsletter “If you had your shot, please talk to your friends and neighbors about your experience with the vaccine,” he said. “Please encourage them to follow your example. Our vaccines are very safe, and adverse reactions are short-lived, quite manageable and well worth the protection we gain through the shot.” To date, Public Health has used nearly 84% of the 222,910 vaccine doses received from the federal and state governments, according to Do-Reynoso. The remaining vaccines are committed to upcoming appointments, she added. Public Health is estimating to de...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  April 7, 2021 | 6:26 p.m. A Public Health mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is heading to Santa Barbara next Monday, and all community members ages 16 and older will be eligible to sign up for appointments starting Thursday. “We welcome all county residents, especially South County residents, to our site in Santa Barbara,” said Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso. “Invite your friends, family, and neighbors to take action and move us closer to the end of this pandemic.” The clinic will be held at the Hilton Santa...