Unmasking Isla Vista: Testing & Vaccines

One of the county’s first COVID-19 outbreaks occurred in I.V., which Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Director Van Do-Reynoso remembers “as the kickoff for the pandemic.”

By Indy Staff August 17, 2021

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Unmasking Isla Vista: Testing & Vaccines

This story first appeared at the Daily Nexus .

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Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, both the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and UC Santa Barbara tried to mitigate the spread of the virus within Isla Vista and the county as a whole through utilizing testing sites and expediting the vaccine rollout.