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Statistics for 2020 show disproportionate effect on communities of color, people over 70 years of age By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  February 24, 2021 | 6:18 p.m. Santa Barbara County Public Health officials have previously noted that the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 have disproportionately affected communities of color since the beginning of the pandemic, and the most recent demographic data show that trend continuing.  The updated Community Data Dashboard includes a demographic breakdown of COVID-19-related cases, hospitalizations and deaths thro...

COVID-19 FAQs: A scandal, a dose & a phobia Is it possible to take a sample of someone's blood (like a politician's) and figure out whether they "cut in line" and got vaccinated earlier than they should have? Also, why aren't more countries adopting a "one dose" policy? And if you hate needles, but want to get COVID-19 vaccine, what options do you have? Listen to audio 12:04 Share

North County includes Santa Maria, Orcutt, Guadalupe, Sisquoc, Casmalia, Garey, Cuyama, and New Cuyama. Mid County includes Lompoc, Vandenberg Village, Mission Hills, Los Alamos, Buellton, Solvang, Santa Ynez, Los Olivos and Ballard. The federal prison complex in Lompoc is not included in these calculations, since its vaccination plan goes through the federal government and not the county. South County includes Gaviota, Goleta, Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, Carpinteria, and unincorporated areas of the South Coast.  The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department has vac...

Fauci: U.S. Sticking with 2-Dose Vaccine Regimen Two of these briefs, one that appeared in New England Journal of Medicine, suggested that single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could be around 90% effective between two and four weeks after the first dose. Together with previous findings that a single Moderna vaccine dose provides 92.1% efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 infection, investigators said it’s time to defer the second dose so more people can get protected with the vaccines. Anthony Fauci, MD, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, weighed in on the...

Santa Barbara County officials say they're not sure yet how the plan will roll out at the local level; 154 new cases of the virus and four more deaths are reported