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Yesterday, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department provided an update to the Board of Supervisors on COVID-19. Despite the reopening of more businesses and people out and about at the beach and downtown, our indicators have remained well within the guidelines set by the State. In fact, we have seen a 27% reduction of active cases. However, we need more people to take advantage of our increased testing capability. Many of you emailed me about procuring a greater amount of testing and now we ask that you please use it! I know many of you were not utilizing our local testing sites because you wanted to make sure they were available for healthcare workers, and other essential workers, but now there seems to be testing capacity for everyone who is interested. Please see more information on testing below:
Online appointment registration: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
Telephone appointment registration: (888) 634-1123
If you need help making an appointment, please contact the Santa Barbara County Call Center at 1 (833) 688-5551 Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. –5:30 p.m.
Community-based testing locations:
- Santa Maria Fairpark 937 Thornburg Street, Santa Maria, CA, 93458
- Earl Warren Showgrounds 3400 Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
- Anderson Recreation Center 125 West Walnut Avenue, Lompoc, CA 93436
Many of you are very happy we are reopening businesses. Recently, we approved allowing wineries and breweries that don’t normally have the right to serve food to do so, so that they could comply with state requirements to reopen.
Tomorrow (Thursday) at 1:00 pm I am co-hosting a Business Reopening Webinar with an incredible group of co-panelists from the County and City of Santa Barbara. The webinar is geared toward local business owners on the Westside and Eastside and will be translated in Spanish, however, all are welcome to join and get their questions answered! Register here.
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