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What’s in the numbers: Reporting of COVID-19 cases called into question at Board of Supervisors meeting
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From frozen empanadas to in-house delivery, Buena Onda Empanadas finds different strategies to make it through the pandemic
hile long-awaited demographic data surrounding COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO Santa Barbara County’s COVID-19 confirmed cases Santa MariaatHigh graduate Bryan was supposed to take center stage the county’s Barriga Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday morning, it became a political tug-of-war as the supervisors struggled to identify a way to balance both the public health and economic crises simultaneously. As is now custom, the Public Health Department’s Health Director Dr. Van Do-Reynoso prepared a lengthy update for the board, showcasing a plethora of COURTESY OF ISAAC HERNANDEZ HERRERO numbers and charts. Santa Maria High graduate Bryan Not more than two charts into Barriga her presentation, the board’s Vice Chair and 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam put a sudden halt to the proceedings. By MITCHELL WHITE Mr. Adam questioned the NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER methodology behind simply showing the cumulative numryan Barriga admits PHOTO he COURTESY ber, indicating that it gives a didn’t have the typical Get the daily breakdown of the false sense of the current situchildhood experience. county’s COVID-19 cases. ation. When wasinfographic 4, Bryan’s father was See ourhe new on A2. “I need to make a point on diagnosed with Meniere’s disease, those last two graphs, that total a disorder of the inner ear, and has is an accumulation of all the been unable to work ever since. At 7, known cases, it isn’t accurately reflective of the current conhis mother and younger sister were ditions because it never takes off the 45% that know have deported to we Mexico. think it recognition just drove me,” recovered,” Mr. Adam said. “It doesn’t“Ihave of Bryan By any MITCHELL WHITE toldthere the News-Press during a recent any amount of cases that may be out that people were NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER phone interview. knew that I needasymptomatic or even had mild symptoms and just“I self-meded to have a better future for my ryan Barriga admits heparicated and got over it themselves and never got documented. ents and I justhave wanted help them didn’t thetotypical So I’m not a big fan of those graphs.” out. They’ve done of soexperience. much for me just childhood Dr. Do-Reynoso answered that the only evidence asymp-
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Buena Onda Empanadas has done that inenables the passive collec- they produce right now,” Alessio Signorini, one Alzheimer’s? tion and deep analysis of continuous behavior of the company’s co-founders, told the Newsa number of different ways. By MARILYN MCMAHON Or if the type of mobile phone or smartwatch data alongside traditional healthcare information, Press. “You would be surprised how much data NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER Filling delivery and takeout orders are of course the simplest you use could reveal how adherent you are to empowering individuals and innovative compa- a smartphone would produce for health. Good alternatives to having customers eat empanadas at the restaucertain medications? 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