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 county’s Community Data Dashboard.
Of the North County population, 17.5% was fully vaccinated. In the Mid-County region, 18.2% of the population was fully vaccinated, and 26.2% of South County residents were fully vaccinated.