Despite COVID-19 cases flaring up across the country, Santa Barbara County has managed to stay stable overall the past few weeks — all of which can now be tracked by the public on the county’s newly released pandemic Community Data Dashboard.
“There’s obviously something going on nationwide and internationally,” 1st District Supervisor Das Williams said about the increase in cases. “But I also want to put this in some context locally, because sometimes the number of new cases isn’t a very good metric compared with looking in the summer or spring when we had much less testing resources.”
And Williams is correct, making the new data dashboard even more critical.