Number of Confirmed Cases Double in Humboldt County
Press release from the County of Humboldt:
Five additional individuals have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing to 10 the number of known cases in Humboldt County. Four of the patients were members of the international traveling group referenced yesterday that yielded two previous positive tests. The 5th is a household contact of one of these individuals.
The case identified late yesterday is unrelated to the international traveler group. Public Health is ascertaining whether this patient may have had contact with any confirmed cases. If no such contact is identified, this individual would represent the first instance of community transmission, meaning the source of infection is unknown.
Symptomatic individuals have been placed in isolation. Close contacts and positive individuals without symptoms are under quarantine. A multistate investigation of possible contacts related to the traveling group continues.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said this once again affirms the importance of the shelter-in-place order that went into effect last week and discouraged all travel. “I cannot emphasize enough that travel increases every individual’s risk and the risk to the community as a whole. It is everyone’s responsibility to cancel non-essential travel and to comply with shelter-in-place orders.”
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Thanks growers, you selfish assholes.
And who in the hell, do you think the rest of the world are getting it from? That’s one of the most stupid statements I’ve seen.
There was nothing about growers I this piece.
What a dumbass. Ide say its more likely going to be here from the HSU students who have a free for all. 3 bus loads brough back after spring break from L.A. and S.F. bunch of liberal pricks
Not growers necessarily, but it is well known that a contingent of people from Humboldt and Mendocino went to Barcelona less than two weeks ago for a cannabis industry trade show right when the outbreak was blowing up in Spain. The trade show was cancelled after they arrived.
Two Mendocino cases and two Humboldt cases returned on flights from high risk countries according to the county Health Departments. The first Humboldt case self-quarantined after arriving back from China and recovered. The second Humboldt case, who might have been in Barcelona, did not. The traveling group arrived back via LAX or SFO to Arcata and did not self-quarantine. They could have been infected on an international flight or a domestic flight on the trip home. It is a fault of the system that returning residents, especially those who flew anywhere, are not required to immediately self-quarantine. The international traveling group was at the very least complacent about the risks associated with flying when outbreaks are blowing up across the world.
One busload, not three, of HSU students returned to Humboldt. They are all Humboldt residents. They have received the recommendation to self-quarantine. We do not know what protective measures were required before all getting on the bus together. The only thing the students could be faulted for would be if they do not comply with the self-quarantine recommendation.
Lesson of the day: Complacency is the enemy. Be uncompromisingly disdainful towards those who try to spread it. The Humboldt COVID Compliance Tip Line # is 707-441-3022. Remember, anyone who thinks that using it means being a rat is a cockroach.
https://www.facebook.com/HumCoCOVID19/posts/116163746684696
I have been told by someone who knows the individuals that traveled that it wasn’t to Barcelona or any other high risk country and they did self quarantine after arriving home before the Shelter in Place orders.
Spannabis was in Barcelona… I know people who went. They initially scoffed at the virus and said they were going anyway while be roasted on social media. I’ve seen posts by them since returning that they would in fact self-quarantine but idk their status currently.
If they said they were self-quarantined, would you believe them? These are not the most conscientious people.
Apologies for leaving the impression that they had traveled to Barcelona. I should have specified that they hadn’t. However, I am skeptical about what your source told you about self-quarantine because of the information in the Health Department’s release of 3/24:
“Health officials are reaching out to all members of the group and conducting a comprehensive investigation of possible contacts. Symptomatic members of the group will be tested and isolated while results are pending. Asymptomatic travel partners will be quarantined.”
Self-quarantine means no contacts. If asymptomatic travel partners were self-quarantined, why is quarantine referred to in the future tense? If they were under self-quarantine, that should have been mentioned as with the first case in Humboldt.
The discrepancy is not trivial.
So logorythmic progression…and with everybody walking their dogs…running…out and about…I’m thinking by months end about 150 easily. Of course, i don’t do math so…anyone?
Hmmm…agenda 21?
Oh, anyone signing up for 60mhz 5g?😎
This is the current modeled rate of growth with 3 people infected from every one.. through 11 iterations:
1
3
9
27
81
243
729
2187
6561
19,683
59,049
177,147
Eighteen iterations is more than the US population at 387,420,489.
Excellent illustration of why those who point to early snapshot numbers from the early stages of an exponentially-driven process as an excuse for complacency are stupid.
The Health Department should at least tell us what parts of Humboldt these cases are located in.
If there was ever a demonstration of why mandatory quarantine for returning residents is needed it is this. We would be extremely lucky if there were only one case of community transmission related to these irresponsible jet-set assholes.
It doesn’t matter which part . If you want to avoid the virus stay home
Sure, Trinity County just became a totalitarian state for mandating quarantine of returning residents. Everybody knows that they’re a bunch of commies over there.
You seem so familiar.
It’s like I’ve read you before.
Hmmm.
To give locals might make people think they are safe because it’s not near them when it’s not. Best to act like it’s everywhere.
🕯🌳I agree. I’d like to know if I’ve become part of chain and don’t realize it. Here in Fortuna some people just don’t care.🖖
I’d like to know if I’m part of a chain, too. I wish these tests were available to those of us without any symptoms. It would be so much better if we could understand more about what is happening around us.
I’m as angry with Newsom as I am with Trump, that we are not better prepared. If our state really was the 6th largest economy in the world, we should have had our own plan in place, along with necessary supplies and infrastructure. We should have had our own selves ready. We shouldn’t have been waiting on Washington for anything.
But voters, too… and the political rhetoric. Nobody votes to spend money for “what ifs” when the government and everyone acts like the deficit is all that matters… Seems they got no trouble printing money now. Only took ’em a sec to find $45 Billion for the airlines.
But I’m angry with our state government right now… California ought to be doing more than this… a paltry few tests per day… we’re last in the world for testing, documenting, and coordinating information. I’m afraid that we, the people of California, will suffer greatly for this.
Airports, airlines, TSA, CDC, Trump and others all have some blame to take.
But Newsom was the first Governor to impose a statewide lockdown in the nation, some credit is due there. How many States followed suite, 30 or more?
He also is passing legislation for a 90 day mortgage moratorium of sorts. More credit on that.
He’s giving briefings often, and is transparent about the risks, without any deliberate misinformation. So that’s another plus.
Him and Cuomo are doing particularly good jobs considering.
I do see your points, and mostly agree. However, I found information in an article in the Guardian, that I found to be quite troubling…
“California’s patchwork response to testing has also left it struggling to keep pace with the virus, and the state is now looking to establish a coordinated approach. At least 22 state laboratories, seven hospitals and two private outfits are conducting tests in California, but it remains hazy how testing at those sites is being tracked.
“We are cobbling together various approaches,” Susan Butler-Wu, an associate professor of clinical pathology at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, told the LA Times. “The whole thing is badly discombobulated … I think 100% that the system is broken.”
About 26,400 tests in California had been conducted by Monday afternoon. New York, which has half as many residents and the nation’s largest number of cases, had conducted 91,200 tests, according to the Covid Tracking Project, an independent group.
Numbers from that group put California below the national average of about 90 tests performed for every 100,000 residents.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/california-coronavirus-cases-hospital-beds-new-york
For these issues, I don’t necessarily blame Newsom. At the same time, it is quite frightening to see how truly disorganized we are. I am beginning to understand what people are talking about, when they say that we need to overhaul our entire medical system. It’s the structure of it that’s… well, lacking. Lemme guess, they’re still using DOS in some parts of the state… The wild west is cute and all, but we’re supposed to be in the 21st century already, are we not?
I’m not a medical professional. But what I see here is a disorganized mess. And it makes me very nervous, and kicks up my OCD.
After looking at South Korea, and how organized their response has been, and the commensurate level of success that organization brought, I see now, the point and the value of an organized and integrated medical system.
I think that, we, as a state, could have done more, and should have done more, a long time ago.
But also, (separately), there is the issue of renters. It is good if the government is willing to assist homeowners. But what will happen for renters? Did I miss where they said they will be assisting renters?
DOS! That’s funny.
I believe the whole idea behind the mortgage moratorium is that it relieves homeowners of financial burdens which should trickle down to renters.
And there may be a clause that if you kick a renter out during the crisis, your mortgage is no longer forgiven.
There are more details here on the package here:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/03/25/governor-gavin-newsom-announces-major-financial-relief-package-90-day-mortgage-payment-relief-during-covid-19-crisis/
The renters situation is still being discussed:
When asked about a potential statewide moratorium on evictions for renters, Newsom said that the state reserves the right to look at measures if action isn’t taken on the local level. He said that the state is looking at the legal parameters around the issue and that they hope to have clarity on the next steps in the next day or two.
https://laist.com/latest/post/20200325/coronavirus-newsom-updates
Hope you guys get to sleep sometimes. It’s good for the immune system.
I go to bed early.
Wake up early early.
Sometimes 3:30, sometimes 5.
Good time to get news of the world.
Hey Brian,
Here are some things to consider:
Newsom is doing the same thing here that Obama did in 2008 when he was the Senate floor manager for Secretary of Treasury, Henry Paulson’s bailout bill, posturing about relief for the common folk but taking real action on behalf of his corporate sponsors.
As President, Obama’s actions did not bear out his “for the people” patter: no real support for victims of the mortgage sellers.
Watch Newsom on PG&E; he’s behaving the same way, big talk, all capitulation.
The Democratic Leadership Council led the party into a corporatist philosophy with a liberal coat of paint. Like Obama, who worked for the International Bank of Settlements but left that out of his biography, they have learned to talk with the cadence of Civil Rights leaders while selling out the people.
Your partisanship blinds you or else you really do support the gentle class war being waged. Whatever is done for the poor (and working class) by these folks is the minimum that they think they can get away with.
Business needs money too.
Again. He is leading the charge for the safety of Californians right now.
Newsom has been pretty tough on PGE, rightfully, and more so than any previous Governer.
Class war is simply a byproduct of capitalism. It’s unavoidable unless we employ more social network programs or fundamentally change the basics of our employment system.
I’m up for either or.
But I’m not blind. Everyone needs help right now.
Scale matters: “A thousand dollars for you. A million for my friends. A thousand for you. A half a trillion for my good friends. A bail out for the friends of my friends. A handout for you.”
As the Connecticut Yankee pointed out in Twain’s book, it matters not what it says on the money (or the check), it matters what it can buy and sell in the market. The big bailout recipients will be in a position to buy and sell the rest of us. As Joe Kennedy knew in the 1928 crash, if everybody is losing but you are losing less, you’re the winner. As the NBA and US Senate know, if all my friends get tested we’re all in a much better position than everybody else.
They are picking winners as well as helping “(e)veryone (who) needs help right now.”
I apply the same critical thinking to the actions of my friends as I do to the actions of my so-called enemies.
The airlines and air travel in general are one of the worst contributors to global climate change, as well as the worst spreaders of diseases of all kinds including the current novel corona virus. Would you support bailing them out?
And Newsom’s talk on PG&E has been much tougher than his actions. The shareholders were given money that was budgeted for safety upgrades and not spent that way. That money should be collected back from the equity of the shareholders and fines for corruption as well as liability for the damage done should be taken as well. Being tougher “than any previous governor” is a low bar to clear in the high jump; the PUC has been a handmaiden( that’s a King James euphemism) to PG&E. The governors have appointed weak commissioners and pushed them to behave with minimal care for the public interest.
“They ARE picking winners.”
b., you are sharp as a tack. Thank you for sharing your lines of reasoning and insight. I say you’re spot on.
B,
Not all friends do the same stuff.
Some friends contribute millions to the economy and employ thousands of people, some friends make minimum wage.
We don’t live in a utopia, but we could do better.
I was hoping a week ago that the housing economy would be paused.
Newsom is edging towards just that.
That is a huge financial relief for people.
In this time of mostly failed leadership, I think he’s doing well.
I hope you recognize the danger of that phrase “contribute millions to the economy and employ thousands of people, . . .” That phrase has a long illustrious history; I recall senators from the tobacco states saying similar. We could ask whether they were contributing millions or extracting millions and destroying millions? I think that the prison industrial complex could be looked at with the same skepticism.
Certainly the Slave States offered the same justification although many people would now assert that the contributions were being made not by the capitalists but by the enslaved workers.
Taking ownership and profits from an activity is not the same as contributing.
Class war happens regardless of capitalism.
Sure, I wouldn’t argue with that.
But we could do more for the social structure as a whole as a capitalist society.
“This bipartisan deal is a raw deal for the people,” Amash wrote in a Wednesday morning tweet. “It does far too little for those who need the most help, while providing hundreds of billions in corporate welfare, massively growing government, inhibiting economic adaptation, and widening the gap between the rich and the poor.” Justin Amash is an actual conservative rather than a partisan who cheers for his side (I’m not suggesting that he’s worthy of worship, just that he’s been willing to step off of the Trump squad because of some consistency of ideals).
Obama said it clearly in his first inauguration address: if you don’t organize and push me to do the right thing, then it won’t happen. We didn’t and it didn’t. The same goes for Newsom and almost every other politician in this paid-for political environment. If we stop pushing them, they will sell us out
Well, idealism in socialism aims to eliminate class warfare.
But I don’t know if that’s ever been achieved.
I can’t think of an example right now.
Trump is doing a fantastic job.
Newsom is a product of his political party. And i agree CA should have been more prepared instead of worrying about how they are going to raise taxes.
Trump pretended the disease was a *hoax* for weeks, then pretended it wasn’t a big deal, lashed out at reporters whenever he was asked a question about it, ignored WHO guidelines, tried turning it into a racist political football, and is still making comments about ending the quarantine prematurely.
How could Trump have possibly handled it any WORSE?
How could Trump have possibly handled it any WORSE?
Unfortunately, we have a lot of time ahead where it can still be handled worse even further than thus far.
We stand to loose more than lives and the economy, if we don’t tread carefully.
Now he wants everyone to crowd into churches in two weeks-something he has never done BTW. He’s an embarrassment to all the other ignoramuses out there.
And what about the rescue buses that HSU thought was necessary to send to LA and bring back people, will they be quarantined until we know for sure they have it or not? I’m literally afraid for my son to go gather his belongs from the dorm…
The county-wide “guidelines” for quarantine will be in force, but they have no legal teeth like in Trinity.
Incredible that the best practices instituted by the countries that are getting Covid-19 under control are totally rejected in Humboldt. Apart from the fear of death and/or disability from this virus, the medical bills will be sufficient to bankrupt many of us. The $60K family deductible is not affordable, yet there are no consequences for those who flout the advice that has been provided for weeks. It’s been clear since January where this was headed, but inaction is apparently preferable to any restrictions on personal freedom.
Well thanks to Trump there will be no medical bill if you do get Covid 19. And in sure glad Trump closed down are borders as early as he did. Even as the left called him racist. Bernie and Biden would still have open boarders because they both would have slept through all this.
You have no power:
Thus, it is not surprising that it was in Lithuania that the citizens’ online army of the elves started five years ago to take on the Russian trolls.
It now has an international force of thousands of volunteers. The vast majority of them are based down the length of Russia’s border from the Nordic states to Armenia.
But there is also rising interest from countries in the west, including Britain, as the arena of the internet warriors continues to spread.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lithuania-elves-russia-election-tampering-online-cyber-crime-hackers-kremlin-a9008931.html
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Just because some doofus goes off into the weeds doesn’t mean you have to.
Just curious. Where are your getting your information? Last I heard there would be no cost to an individual for a test. Haven’t heard anything about the the government picking up the tab for hospital care..
All the cases are in Arcata!
NorHum is crawling with the sickness.
Understand, viruses travel with people.
Do you truly believe that those infected who flew on the 2 recent planes to arrive in Arcata actually STAYED in Arcata?!?
Get real. You are now within 10 feet of the virus. RIGHT NOW.
Too late to claim immunity. We’re ALL at risk now. Deal with it.
How do you know that? in a way I hope it’s true, since the shelter-in-place order would provide the leverage to keep those snooty dweebs out of the rest of Humboldt.
ISOLATION PROTOCOLS are now COMPLETELY NECESSARY in order to protect the vulnerable within our population.
STAY IN ISOLATION. NOW.
worldmeter.info/coronavirus-look at the numbers
this is no joke…..STAY AT HOME
When Dr. Frankostein didn’t say -hit today as she promised, I knew crap had hit the fan blades ,and I had predicted a 6,7,and an 8 patient. I wasn’t too far off from the “current” 10. Yeh right!!!??? They don’t have any idea what damage has occurred out there from this “travel group”.
As Hicks say in the Aliens movie- WERE FUCKED-WERE ALL GONNA DIE!! Instead of alien larvaes in our chests, we’ll have Wuhan CHINESE virus’ in our chests.
Now we know the DHHS’s pattern-if nothing is said to have an update-then the blades are dirty and stinky again.
Were in for lots of dirty brown coated blades! Numbers should double in 3-4 days? Rock and roll folks! STAY INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The reality is the DHHS will NOT be honest with us at all. Withholding the info about the 5th person for today’s news from yesterday was uncalled for but expected since the Director will not be candid and open.
Now another 5 infected people shows they have lost control of 2 fold, 4 fold, 16 fold pattern of increases to hit us.
Open air travel must cease immediately. Anyone coming into Humboldt must be mandatorily quaranteened-no exceptions. Air travel is our current weakness. STAY HOME, STAY INSIDE, STAY SHELTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Been dreading this day!
Here we go folks…
HERE is an issue.
Safeway is limiting gallons of water (I can’t drink tap water, chemical stew cripples me) to four per shopping trip. Understandable, except that I use eight gallons a week and I can’t just buy a week’s worth.
Much less two weeks worth!
Yes, I figured I could go in a couple of times in an hour and deal with the problem that way, but it feels like I’m cheating.
And requires I go out lots more than I want to…
I’m in the vulnerable section of the population, being over 60, beset with auto immune issues…
And yes, it’s Safeway because they are the only local source for steam distilled water that wasn’t stolen for profit by Nestle’.
Buy yourself a water distiller. They use any water, like tap water, distill a gallon in two or three hours, and you have a gallon of clean, pure distilled water. It’s easy, and not very expensive. Take some mineral supplements if you’re drinking a full gallon a day.
Well ide probably look into a Britta Filter. And if your drinking over a Gallon a day Newsom is going to put a drought tax on that ass
Try a Brittia water filter…and make filtered water as u go, that’s what I’m doing.
I have a 2nd gallan jug I use to store more filtered water.
A Britta filter won’t do anything against bacteria or a virus. The best is the Berkey!
https://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com/
Also these Sawyer water filters are good. They are also very inexpensive.
https://sawyer.com/water-filtration/
Hey water drinker via bottle get a Britta water filter. Bottled water is not done with reverse osmosis. It’s filtered. Be safe and now’s a great time to tell those important to you how much you love them.
Dear Dr. Frankovich
Shouldn’t we be throwing every available test at this every day?! It feels as if the Humboldt County Health Department has a case of the hoardies with their test kits. If the capacity is 30 per day shouldn’t we see 30 tests a day right now? What good are tests next week or the week after? Infection has proven to be exponential. This question comes from my 11 year old Freshwater Elementary school son.
I know of a county in Colorado that lists the cases, including date, age group, gender, and city. I have family there, sheltering at home, but worry about their runs out and about to get groceries and the like. It’s useful info to see how it’s impacting their community.
The truth is that the DHHS is corrupt from the top – the director. I know first hand that she was involved in criminal activity before being appointed by our equality corrupt Board of Supervisors. There were many line workers whose lives were destroyed by this activity. I don’t know how far her dishonesty travels into the Public Health Branch, but there sure seems to be a lack of integrity in the handling of this situation.
Stay safe everyone. The County government sure will not do anything for you.
Rich westhaven dope growers coming back from vacation.
The money we spend every day has the virus on it so when pay or get payed its like playing Russian roulette
Except…. There is no food shortage and this is nowhere near a plague. The bubonic plague had a 50-70% death rate.
Get a grip, we have to keep a cool head and work together to help our elderly and weak from getting exposed. Running around yelling the sky is falling only makes it harder for sensible people to be effective.
Response to Holy Johnie below?
This latest Pandemic is the latest facet of the Scriptures @ Rev 6:8 which says,
to kill with a long sword…. with food shortage and with deadly plague
You can learn more about how the effect of these horsemen have had and continue to have on your life. I’d like to invite you to jw.org
A pandemic is a particularly bad time to join a cult, especially one that will excommunicate members at will. You could be exposed to corona and kicked out, left with no support structure.
Here’s a handy list of failed JayHoe prophesies: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Jehovah%2527s_Witnesses%23Doctrinal_criticisms&ved=2ahUKEwjYlaTor7joAhURuZ4KHXunA9wQpYkCKAAwAHoECAQQBw&usg=AOvVaw03nW5JRSEg11el5kBjDZJ8
Kym, do you allow soliciting in the comment section?
Unless it’s done repeatedly, I don’t mind if folks want to mention that their business might help you—in this case this person believes that the Jehovah Witnesses can assist people with their struggles. I don’t think that’s likely but heck, I don’t think a lot of what folks propose is useful.
These selfish international travelers should be identified and publicly shamed! To say the least. IRRESPONSIBLE FUCKS!
i have to travel for my treatments …every month..if those flights in an out of humboldt are shut down i could lose my spot in the clinical trails of the drug saving my vision…kind of sucks listening to people talk about shutting down travel…
Your travel is essential. A lot of travel is not.
All Incoming Residents and visitors should be required to quarantine for 14 days, just like Hawaii! Close the County Border to all non-residents. There is currently no community spread, the only way to limit any community spread is to close the County Borders to all non-residents immediately!
With the borders closed and no community spread lift the order demanding we give up our rights and liberties requiring us to stay in our homes. The time to close the county borders is now, not in two weeks from now, dont wait another day, it is the only solution to stop bay area residents herds from coming into our small rural communities and getting us all sick! Time is of the essence
i’m in assisted living it costs me around$5000 A MONTH WILL EITHER THE FEDERAL OR STATE PROGRAMs ASSIST THE MANY THOUSAND SENIORS IN SIMILAR SITUATIONS oops sorry about the caps.
How ever that was talking neck about growers I am very happy that there is growers for all it means his that people who are inneed are receiving the help that they need PLUS sounds like it’s just another cannabis hater it’s legalized get over it as for me im going to smoke as much dank ass cannabis bud as I feel like. Growers are caring people to help people that are inneed way far from being selfish by a long shot