Mendocino County Confirms 3rd Case
Press release from the County of Mendocino:
The Mendocino County Health Officer Dr. Noemi Doohan has confirmed a third case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mendocino County. Like the first two cases in Mendocino County, this third case is thought to be travel related and does not appear to indicate community spread. The individual is from Inland Mendocino County, is in stable condition, in isolation at home with active public health monitoring, did not require hospitalization, and poses no risk to the public at this time.
Additionally, Mendocino County Public Health has reported that the first Mendocino County case, from the South Coast, who was monitored daily in isolation by public health, has recovered. This individual remained in isolation as directed for the designated amount of time- 14 days from symptom onset and until symptoms resolved.
Regarding the new COVID-19 case, Dr. Doohan stated, “Public Health was notified late yesterday evening of a third COVID-19 case. This person is on home isolation, doing well and does not pose a risk to the public. The individual is being actively monitored by public health along with their primary healthcare provider. The healthcare facility where this case was identified used proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and handled this case in an exemplary manner that protected their healthcare workers, staff and patients from exposure. We will continue to release announcements of new cases promptly, by 6pm each day.”
This third positive COVID-19 individual was identified through the Public Health Lab system in coordination with our healthcare providers. Across the nation, the current situation for COVID-19 testing is highly problematic due to shortages of the test sampling materials and limited testing capacity. In response to this challenge, Mendocino County Public Health has developed a process for facilitating COVID-19 testing for our healthcare partners. Currently, the Mendocino County Public Health department can facilitate testing through our affiliated Public Health lab, located in Santa Rosa.
As of today, the average turnaround time for the one commercial lab available to our County, Quest, is two weeks. The Public Health Lab turnaround time is at most 72 hours, which includes the time needed for pickup of the sampling kit from the Healthcare partner and delivery of the sample by courier to the Santa Rosa lab. Given the current restricted access to COVID-19 testing supplies and resources, the testing that Public Health facilitates for partners includes symptomatic patients from specific categories: healthcare workers, public safety personnel, people of high public health risk (nursing home residents, incarcerated people, homeless), high risk exposure (due to travel or contact) and emergency room and hospitalized patients in whom the test result will change management of the patient. Anyone who is tested for COVID-19 MUST remain in isolation until further directed by their clinician who ordered the test. People who are sick and being evaluated for COVID-19 can spread the disease unless they stay in isolation away from other people.
The Public Health facilitation of COVID-19 testing is a top priority so that our healthcare partners can increase testing efficiency and ensure that individuals most at risk can be tested promptly.
Below are the COVID-19 testing numbers as of March 27, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.
Public Health Lab:
Negatives: 42
Positives: 1
Pending: 13
Total:56
Commercial Lab (Quest):Negatives: 101
Positives: 2
Pending: 28
Total: 131
Recovered: 1
“To keep COVID-19 from spreading like wild-fire in Mendocino County, we must make sure everyone continues to Shelter-In-Place, and maintain physical distancing while carrying out essential activities and business. Additionally we must make sure that people who are sick with COVID-19 symptoms, and their close contacts, stay isolated and quarantined away from others as directed by their clinicians and Public Health” said Health Officer Dr. Doohan.Remember:
Be familiar with the Shelter in Place order and follow it’s directives (https://www.mendocinocounty.org/community/novel-coronavirus)
Keep a distance of at least six feet away from others when in public
Don’t shake hands
Wash your hands thoroughly and often
Don’t touch your face with un-washed hands
Cover coughs and sneezes (into your elbow and away from others, not hands)
Regularly clean high-traffic surfaces
If you are sick stay home unless you need to seek medical care in which case you should call ahead
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it’s interesting they say where the case was in the county… unlike in humboldt where it’s a total MYSTERY WOO WEEE WOO we can’t say what city it was in, nor even what part of the county, even though that wouldnt violate hipaa!
50% of the population is infected, suck it up. 1% of the world population will die from worst case predictions. Wonder what percent of the world population will die from an economic fear based depression? Alcoholism? Suicide? Loss of homes? Starvation? Poverty? Etc? Let’s run those numbers? I like what some good ol boy said on here a while ago…. “drink some OJ and get back to work!”
“drink some OJ and get back to work!”
Classic example of ‘stupid is what stupid does’. And the people you are referring to that might face the horrors you describe are the lower and middle classes, the working men and women of this country. Not talking about the fat cats who benefit the most from our capitalist society. They can get the best treatment, shelter in place (vacation) on their island in the Bahamas, nothing to worry about. But they ARE worried that their workers aren’t working making them the big bucks they are accustomed to. Yeah, so tell them to get back to work so they can get sick so elite fucks can stay rich.
Actually that’s a really really bad idea.
Sorry for the burst of anger, but right now the only hope we have of avoiding the number of deaths you suggest, 80,000,000, is by avoiding each other and situations where viral contact is possible. The head of China’s version of the CDC says that the most important thing we can do other that social distancing is wearing masks, because in China, (and now the rest of the world) he believes the spread was increased exponentially by asymptomatic people. Had they enforced a mask rule those people who didn’t have symptoms and didn’t know they were sick wouldn’t have been infecting others.
China has successfully reduced spread to a trickle, but closed borders to outsiders as the virus rages elsewhere, especially the US due to it’s lax handling of the crisis. The rest of the world needs to follow China’s lead until we get a handle on this.
Ferndale and San Francisco made it a law to wear a mask in public in 1918.
The Real Brian, what does Ferndale and San Francisco have to do with now? That was 102 years ago.
Just noting a difference of policy between then and now.
have you run the numbers… 82000 us deaths due to the flu last year divided by 180 day flu season is 455 death a day in the us. what is really going on besides the destruction of the system
In the US, there were 525 deaths from COVID-19 between March 27 and March 28 (24 hours). (That’s on top of an already serious flu season with its own deaths happening.) And, we have over two weeks in those areas already hard hit before they hit the peak number of deaths and many areas in the US haven’t been hit yet.
Worst case is 100-200 thousand (USA). Math is not that far off. Why are we panicking and fear based so much? We are going to kill millions at this rate through loss of work,businesses,alcoholism, suicides,loss of homes, broken family’s and all out poverty! We all are running around like chickens with there heads cut off over a fuking flu bug…. it’s “fear of the unknown” that will kill us all, that, and social media.
“When technology becomes your master, it no longer serves you.”
The worst case that scientists are projecting without social distancing etc is 2.2 Million in the US. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-research/sobering-coronavirus-study-prompted-britain-to-toughen-its-approach-idUSKBN2141EP
10%. Hmmmm kym. Well thanks for those “projected theory’s “. All we can do is wait n see. Do we all agree there are too many humans on this planet causing a depletion of natural resources, adding to carbon footprints and pollution? Here’s a projected theory. If unchecked, our human population will double in less than 100 years….. chew on that for a moment.
I laughed at that way harder than I should of.
Nihilism much?
I am chewing on that. I’m really rooting that we learn to practice birth control not kill off folks like your family and mine.
Studies are showing that it has been in the United States long before tested death stats have been available. Like I say, I would not be surprised if 50-70% of the population has it, or has had it. Let’s punch those numbers and percentages of survivors!
You can tell that is not true because the lag period between exposure and critical illness is only about two weeks. The same admittedly small but definitely increasing percentage of people getting ill enough to need hospitalization would have come to the attention of everyone soon enough as it did in China if the disease had been widely circulating for long enough 70% to have already been infected. There is a built in lag time between getting infected then spreading the disease even in geometric sequencing. Since we have the closed world of the Diamond Princess cruise ship to look at, we know that even there, while very contagious, everyone certainly does not get sick at once from a small seed group. Unless a infected person effectively spreads it to everyone in a very short time, infection takes awhile to get going. That is not possible in a country with large spaced apart individuals.
“As of today, the average turnaround time for the one commercial lab available to our County, Quest, is two weeks.”
This is insane.
Google the average daily death rate in the usa, PRE-Covid. Every day average death rate is 7,452 ppl, or 1 approximately every 12 seconds. Ppl are dying from car accidents, cancer, heart& lung failures, flu, & many things.
Until they test the majority of citizens, they will only know how many ppl died from Covid. But they won’t know the correct ratio of the number of infected ppl to those who died. The projections were 40-80% of the population will get this virus, and 1-2% will die, mainly elderly & those with serious underlying conditions. 339 million ppl live in the USA. Big numbers all around, but 50,000+ppl pass away every week & that’s just in the USA. If CNN started educating their audience to everyday numbers, things might change. I’m not gonna bet on that, no one ever wants to look at “those negative things.” Doesn’t the song go, “Every body wants to go to Heaven, Nobody wants to die.” I believe that when the Good Lord takes me, it’s my time to return to my Sender. When you make time to contemplate your very own mortality, it transforms your fears, and encourages you to live in the very best way.(Hopefully!) In the meantime, use the utmost caution, with yourself & others, & Stay Home! Not fearing death doesn’t mean to act a fool!
Well said! The numbers are closer to less than half a percent though (death from covid) bravo for sure!
We are almost at one person every 12 seconds from Covid wordlwide.
In 2 weeks we will be one person every minute on the US.
The medical system is overwhelmed and short on resources.
People who need other medical attention are being delayed.
What don’t you see as abnormal?
Since fear, panic and lack of actual true statistics is normal…. than nothing Brian. All these statistics are only guesses, including mine. No one knows! That’s the problem. Fear of The Unknown. That’s the real problem. Panic. Plain n simple.
Not really.