No New Positive Cases in April 16 Public Health Lab Report
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
No additional cases of COVID-19 were confirmed today keeping the local count at 52 for the second day in a row.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said while the confirmation of no new cases is always a good thing, we continue to expect more positive cases. “We are continuing to focus on getting all of the pieces in place as identified by the Governor’s recent address, such as testing capacity and all aspects of preparedness.”
For the most recent COVID-19 information, visit cdc.gov or cdph.ca.gov. Local information is available at humboldtgov.org or during business hours by contacting [email protected] or calling 707-441-5000.
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
Total new positive cases confirmed on April 16: 0
Daily COVID-19 case report for April 16
- Total number of positive cases: 52
- Total number of hospitalizations: 3
Total number of people tested by Public Health Laboratory: 931
Total number of people tested by all other sources: 622
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California Department of Public Health and commercial labs)The Public Health Laboratory currently has a capacity of approximately 550 tests and can process about 55 samples a day with an approximate turnaround time of 48 to 72 hours.
For the most recent information about COVID-19, visit CDC.gov or CDPH.ca.gov. For local information, visit humboldtgov.org, call 707-441-5000 or email [email protected].
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Earlier test results:
- Second Case of COVID-19 Confirmed in Humboldt County Today (March 20)
- Local Health Officials Confirmed Today a Third Person Tested Positive for Novel COVID-19 (March 24)
- March 24 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- March 25: Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- March 26: Two More COVID-19 Cases, One Hospitalized
- March 27 By the Numbers: Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- Four More Positive Cases–March 28 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- Three More Positive Cases–March 30 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- Six New Cases: March 31 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- Total of 28 Cornavirus Cases After One New Positive Test Today: April 1 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- Nine New COVID-19 Cases Confirmed Today: April 2 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- Forty Total Positive Tests: April 3 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- Forty-Four Total Cases: April 4 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- 49 Total Positive Tests: April 6 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt
- 50 Positive Cases in Humboldt County: April 7 Results on COVID-19 Testing
- No New Positive COVID-19 Tests in Humboldt County: April 8 Results
- No New Positive COVID-19 Tests in Humboldt County for the Second Day in a Row: April 9 Results
- Third Day in a Row With No New Positive Cases: April 10 Results for Positive COVID-19 Tests
- 4th Day in a Row With no New Positive Cases
- Our Last Positive Result Was a Week Ago,” Says Public Health Officer; April 13 Test Results
- One New Positive Case of COVID-19: April 14 Test Results
- Another Positive Test: April 15 Public Health Lab Report
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Someday in the future hopefully they will be able to release someone from the hospital and then maybe some will actually recover.
??That’s a good thing. Social distaincing is working along with the face masks. ???????
For another 6 months to a year willi?
Just like the original Coronavirus death estimates were overestimated
i predict the majority of the country that has mild to moderate numbers of infections will reopen within 25 days and the rest of the country by the the 4th of July.
I wrote numerous posts about the death rate (CFR, case fatality rate) and that it should already be coming down. Well, I was wrong. The consensus of the scientists I’ve talked to is that only Germany and South Korea have done enough testing to start bringing down the CFR. They haven’t started coming down yet but should soon. The rest of the world is still testing mostly just the seriously ill and the CFR should keep rising for sometime. For those people who tried to tell me enough testing hadn’t been done yet I apologize for not listening. My bad.
It’s still scary to see how fast the death rate is rising but I have been assured it will drop someday.
No, you good. And very kind.
China just announced that the death rate is at least 50% worse than they previously reported, due to undercounting of deaths. That is, they revised their death figures upwards by about 50% now that they’ve had time to aggregate and analyze the data better…
Unfortunately, data from China cannot be trusted.
The Chinese government spends a lot of effort keeping their citizenry controlled. And local officials keep their jobs by pleasing the all power party committees, who tell them what they want to hear. That means choosing to do things like arrest medical doctors for spreading rumors and under count inconvenient deaths. Or hiding information that contradicts the committee’s pronouncements.
Their current stats are still questionable and for no reason related to science. And their own citizens do not buy it. They raised the stats to be more believable, not more accurate.
https://www.newsweek.com/wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-may-tens-thousands-data-cremations-shipments-urns-suggest-1494914
https://twnews.us/us-news/china-tried-to-suppress-and-play-down-unpleasant-outbreak-news-now-it-is-struggling-with-disinformation
That’s been happening with the data from France on occasion and from the US. recently. Deaths from medical emergencies not meeting the criteria for confirmed cases get attributed to covid-19 after review. We can expect more such situations throughout the world. Of course in the case of China it becomes fodder for conspiracy theories and propaganda.
The Wuhan urn story has been discredited:
“As for the number of urns delivered to funeral homes in Hubei after the quarantine was lifted one has also to consider the number of regular death. Hubei province has some sixty million inhabitants. The regular mortality rate in China is 726 per 100.000 inhabitants per year. The regular expected number of death from January 1 to March 31 in Hubei province without the epidemic was 108.900. In Wuhan, which has 14 million inhabitants, the expected number was 25.410. Photos that show the delivery of a few thousands of urns to large funeral homes in Wuhan are thereby not a sign for a higher Covid-19 death rate. To claim such is propaganda nonsense.”
“There is no reason to criticize China for publishing incomplete and a times confusing numbers. That is normal during any epidemic and the U.S. will certainly do likewise. The real problem with the various numbers flowing around lies elsewhere.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/04/china-did-not-deceive-us-counting-death-during-an-epidemic-is-really-difficult.html#more
New York adjusted their death count days ago.
It’ll keep happening and it’s not nefarious.
The new cumulative figure for “confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths” released by the New York City Health Department marked a staggering increase of over 3,700 deaths formally attributed to the highly contagious illness since March 11.
The 60 percent spike in reported deaths underscored the enormous losses endured in the nation’s most populous city, where the sounds of wailing sirens have echoed almost non-stop through largely empty streets for weeks.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/new-york-city-posts-60-per-cent-spike-in-coronavirus-deaths-after-untested-victims-added/amp
It is not that it is nefarious to adjust the rate. It is nefarious to suppress or expand the rate in the service of political or financial agendas. And that can and does cut both ways. There is both anecdotal and hard evidence that Wuhan officials did suppress the deaths in order to look more competent to their superiors. There is anecdotal and expert evidence that New York City officials have expanded the count.
That Moon-over-Alabama blogger – self identifying itself as a “place where barflies get together” clearly has an agenda and proceeds to cherry pick allegations to blame Trump “for not preparing.” Even they said the true numbers will not be known until “excess death” stats are done, yet they proceed to do just that. The blogger- which is what that is- has an opinion is not a validation. A better idea of by how much will come when yearly death totals for all causes are reported and analysed two or more years from now. Until then complaining that an opponent has misinterpreted the data while rationalizing the same but more convenient misinterpretations is just plain embarrassing.
What are they doing to get large scale testing done ? What happened to the test kits made at HSU ? Did they all leave town or are hiding at home ? If Frankovich can’t do it get rid of her and get someone who can. Hey governer what are you doing to help ? I thought you were buddies with fantastic people. How is that mask deal working out ?
What is the number of total tests administered in Humboldt?
Good. that makes only like 1 case in over a week. time to re-open. trump was very clear in his briefing today that the time to reopen is coming very, very soon. they released soem really good looking slides that showed how the process would happen. i hope the doctor and sheriff and others in charge here in humboldt take a good look at those slides
Trump has been repeatedly saying that the time to “re-open” is very soon, and every time the people who actually know anything about the spread of infectious diseases have pointed out that, no, it’s not. And that even includes the most recent briefing, which outlines a multi-stage multi-month approach led by state governors, as once again he was forced to revise his claims when they became untenably far from reality.
You don’t seem to comprehend that the low cases _are because social distancing is working_. If we relax the restrictions, it won’t keep working. And then we won’t have low cases anymore.
You might try trusting the people who are experts on topics they have spent their life studying, instead of the statements of someone who has entire sites devoted to fact-checking their nonsense.
I don’t know. Trump has Fauci and Bircks on his team, i think if they had a problem with the re-opening they would have said something. as far as i know they are on board. i know they are cautious but today it seemed like they understand places like humboldt only have 1 case, and none more incoming if we clean up in the next two weeks.
They all have an agenda, and one agenda is to keep us compliant. Testing is a snapshot in time. You can test negative one day and positive a week later. Flattening the curve is fine for the purposes of not over-running the hospitals, but it isn’t a cure and doesn’t make the virus go away. Not everyone who tests positive goes to the hospital. You have to look long and hard to find data on the “recovered” or those released from the hospital—-and 98% recover. It is sad that lives have been lost to this virus, but 22 million people who have lost their job in the USA may not recover from their loss very quickly, nor their families. People’s life energy has gone into their small businesses and providing for their families. Savings accounts are being wiped out and foreclosures will begin. How can you even calculate those losses? All of us have a life to live and the right to live it. It is time wash your hands, step out and get back to work. Life is a risk and outcomes are not equal. Where are all of you who “questioned authority”? (Remember that bumper sticker?) Run ALL of the numbers. And if you are in a risk group, take responsibility for yourself and stay home. But if the rest of us aren’t allowed to work, you won’t be getting a government check. Quit allowing the administrative state to run our lives.
If you have a life to live and a right to live it, that requires being alive, and you probably don’t want to be dead. And nor do most other people. And they especially don’t want to be dead because of you. Does your right to do whatever you want with your life outweigh their right to simply be alive?
A couple million deaths will also rather destroy the economy, if money is the only thing in the world you care about.
Also, the whole “risk groups” thing has been repeatedly shown to be false… While older, less-healthy people are certainly more likely to die, younger people get sick and die too. The CDC shows 22% of fatalities so far have been younger people, and the ratio has been higher in other countries.
Hiding in our houses won’t make the virus go away, but it could keep you from catching it. However, you have to come out sometime. A lock down is not sustainable indefinitely—and certainly not for 6 months or a year or however long it takes for a vaccine that will only reduce your risk of catching the virus. It will be like the flu vaccine-doesn’t work every time or for everyone. I wouldn’t hang my hat on that one. Sadly, one needs money to buy food for the little ones and to keep a roof over their heads.
Actually, it could make it go away – for example, that’s how China has made it go away.
Vaccines vary in effectiveness… Some are very effective. An effective vaccine may make the virus go away entirely, just like the awful diseases that we fortunately no longer have, thanks to childhood immunizations. It doesn’t need to protect 100% of people – just enough people that someone who has the virus doesn’t infect anyone else before they’re identified and isolated.
It’s also possible that effective pharmaceutical treatments will be found. Of the reports I’ve seen, favipiravir looked especially promising – but it’s not getting much attention in this country because we don’t have big pharma poised to profit off it, and trump has instead pushed for some of the drugs with the least-promising results but highest immediate corporate profits…
If the lockdown extends for a long time, such as needing to be re-implemented due to rising case numbers, it’s possible the stimulus checks will slowly morph into universal basic income… assuming we can keep industry functioning at its current level, rather than needing to shut it down further, that might make it tolerably sustainable until a vaccine or treatment is found.
China has been and still is lying.
How do you keep industry functioning with a lockdown. Capitalists society is more symbiotic than i think you understand .
The reality is simple- as long as the virus is circulating somewhere, it can infect again. As a Singaporean officially it ” “The virus is moving so quickly. If I’d known, I would have done things differently. But no one can tell the next step.””
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/16/singapores-new-covid-19-cases-reveal-countrys-two-very-different-realities/
In places monoethnic like Taiwan or Iceland, the borders can be closed to create an effective quarantine, if they make no mistakes, but in places like the US or Europe, where people from different places and cultures mix freely, it is not possible.
Well said !
“Only through the illusion of fear will the vision of freedom be suppressed.” (Me)
Look around you, you have imprisoned yourself through the fear of the unknown. Yes, not even the top scientists can give you a known answer.You are not free to do anything. Any governments wet dream. Trust me, they will be at this for quite some time. Get used to it. “Once someone has nothing, they will do anything for something.” Just remember, if you don’t comply to The Order, you might die.
You do realize absolutely no part of what you said makes sense, right?
That is not a valid criticism. It’s just said to be insulting.
They have said things, repeatedly. My favorite is when Fauci said he wished he could run up on stage and stand between Trump and the microphone to stop him from saying stupid shit… (not quite how he worded the last part, but it was the meaning of it)
Why do you think we won’t have more cases? Even if we eliminate all cases locally, as long as free travel is allowed, cases will continually be brought into the area by tourists, students, trimmers, people traveling for work (both to this area, and locals traveling out of the area for work and coming back infected), truckers, etc etc. Patchwork relaxing of restrictions can’t work until there’s a treatment or a vaccine, or close enough government tracking (don’t go outside without your tracking device, or you’ll go to jail…) to identify every single person a case has had contact with, their contacts, etc, to issue quarantines every time a new outbreak starts.
Yea no thanks.. Maybe yoh wanna live in a world qhere youre tracked alk thebtimw but most folksndont.
I guess I wasn’t sarcastic enough?
The other thing that will work is to accept that the virus will spread, do what is reasonable to make it gradual, people will acquire immunity and the pandemic becomes just another circulating seasonal illness. The difference in thinking is that the government will not be trying to control an desperate populace with a myriad of long lasting restrictions to output economic ruin.
I’ve tried it. Swine don’t not git no sarcasm. Maybe ’cause it’s an -ism, or, an -asm.
Notice the “triple” negative there.
I translate 90% of my thought and words as sarcasm. The wife says it’s very hard to translate sarcasm through words. I said why? She says it’s because people actually believe what u say….. hmmm
As Arnold on Happy Days used to say, “Yeeepp, yep yep yep yep.”
Text has no inflection or facial features. And if you try caps to stress a word, people get MAD at you for YELLING. I might try emojicons, but, I neither have them nor understand them.
So, you know what? Be sarcastic and laugh at the responses. Sarcasm is like a smile, it keeps people wondering.
I’m serious. Kinda. Maybe not. Green, no BLUE.
A recent article in both the North Coast Journal and here at RHB it was reported that we received an average of 4.5 results back per day, and that testing has declined as well.
“The week of March 30, when Humboldt saw its caseload double, 536 residents — or 76.6 a day – were tested for COVID-19.
The following week, when six cases were announced and the no new-case streak began, just 319 residents were tested, or 45.6 a day. That’s a 40 percent drop-off, much of it due to a sharp decline in tests results coming from the two out of area corporate labs that processes local samples.
After testing an average of 38.66 patients per day over a nine-day stretch, the labs have returned just 4.5 test results a day over the last six”. – North Coast Journal by Thadeus Greenson
??Plus those two labs are not just processing our tests there doing tests from alot of other areas, so there’s a natural occurring back log of tests. ?????
On Wordmeter they list the tests per million. California is fourth from the bottom at 5814 tests per million people. Texas, Kansas and Virginia are the only states that have tested less.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
That is pretty sad! North Dakota with only 393 cases had tested 3x more than CA!
California tested a hundred times more people but per capital, South Dakota tested a little under twice as many more than California. I suspect simply because their population is so small but they had a large concentrated outbreak at the pork processing plant. It’s bad luck for South Dakota, not for California.
I’ve heard, and only from one source, that Humboldt has the “most cases per capita.” Can anyone confirm or dispute that? I’d like to see some numbers, or a chart, or website or something.
I love California, born and raised, and won’t leave… but damn, we treat our people like shit.
So we have a total of 900 or so virus deaths Statewide since this all started?
I’ll take them odds all day long.
Another thing no one can answer is when did this virus get here ? Could some have been sick couple months ago and not realized they had it. Some thought it was bad case of flu in November or shortly later. Get off your butts and get busy you unelected experts you don’t always know best. By the way these people get paycheck if we all get sick on not.
exactly!!! they are just afraid to admit mr trump is right on this one. And i say That as someone who doesn’t particiluloriy like him
But he knows it’s best to get the economy open!!!!!
Yes, let’s have millions of people die because of money! That’s the spirit! Go USA! We’re #1, and let’s make sure we stay there!
Yeah let’s all die from starvation, homelessness due from foreclosures and depression .
The only people i hear that keep spouting opinions like yourself (im guessing) are either retired older folk with a pension and social security or rich people who don’t give a shit because they can ride this whole thing out sitting in their homes for 6 month to a year.
The majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to just sit around . What do you think will happen to supply chains if this continues ?
Don’t worry about the class warfare talk, by then end of this we will all be equally fucked. That people are cheering on these lockdowns and printing monopoly money to cover it show the lack of any financial literacy what so ever. You are forcing the worst deflation to ever occur on the most indebted society that has ever been allowed to be so foolish…and promised pensions, annuities, insane returns, healthcare, evrything is tied to debt that is no longer being serviced. Your plan, if you think economic shutdowns are the way to go, is to unleash an even worse hell of hyperinflation hoping it wins as the lessor of the 2 evils for WALL ST AND THE BANKERS and anyone who is in political power to front run the new set of laws that need to be passed to keep from swinging from a lamppost. The death toll from these shutdowns will dwarf anything the virus could possibly do. The only thing keeping you from realizing this is the terror between 70,000 derivative traders on Wall Street as they all collectively realize that there is nothing under their feet has them as paralyzed as the wait for that stimulus check for the rest of us. These shutdowns weren’t the worst idea ever, they are planned because they are the worst ideas ever
Why deflation instead of inflation?
If you have an event that squeezes debt, like a mass unemployment, where people can’t cover their debts and they are forced to liquidate anything and any price, that is a deflation. Assets go towards zero and cash is king because it is necessary to extinguish the debt. If it can’t be extinguished then the creditor will liquidate further driving prices to zero. The more debt, the more deflationary the force. The recent massive drops in the stock market and all other asset classes were deflationary waves due to high margin debt in the system, as people got margin calls they had to liquidate anything to cover them. The guy who makes the margin call doesn’t care why you are down, he just says “Have it here by the end of the day”
Trevor Bedford, the scientist who was first to sequence the coronavirus and sound the alarm back in January has looked into that possibility by retesting samples from a research project called the Seattle Flu Study. Samples were collected from patients that exhibited acute respiratory and other flu like symptoms, not unlike covid. If there was covid among us back then they would have seen it in this group, yet of the 3600 samples retested for COVID-19 status, none were positive.
This is the twitter feed where he discusses that and another reason why Covid wasn’t here in Nov or Dec.
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1249414291297464321
You have to realize, at this point, it is all about money and disinformation. The dollar amounts are staggering at this point in a manufactured panic, and also geopolitical which has it’s own money chain. The entire, “we have evidence that it has been here longer than we know” testing for anti-bodies destroys potential TRILLIONS of future pentagon and associated suppliers war profiting, including the CIA and a couple thousand organizations you aren’t even allowed to know about. The narrative that this was a whuan biolab escape is worht billions. On the Chinese side, the narrative that this was an American Biowarfare attack by American soldiers bringing it to the World Military Games in Wuhan in Nov is undeniable. There is no reason to admit that we don’t really have a societal problem outside flattening the curve, which is easy. Masking, protect the vulnerable, there are bright ideas besides total shut down by central big brother governments. This is suicide. You will understand this when you are seconds away, I hope you make it
Good find researcher, thanks.
??PBS ran a special last on a girl that had gotten the virus and didn’t know it until contacted because she was in a chain. She was at dance party and three people had it. Then she got contacted three more times, and this took days and the whole time she was going about her normal life. Then 5days later she started to feel sick,slight fever, muscle aches and was told to see her primary care physician. The next morning she couldn’t get out of bed ,had to crawl to the door and ask her husband for help to take to see her doctor. And yes she had Covid-19 sent home to selve isolate in her bedroom were her condition worsened for three more days then starting getting better. She is recovering but still selve isolated, but wonders how many people she might have infected before she realized she had the virus????
Here’s a good, comparitive graph:
And in other news: Mendocino County in Northern California is restricting churches from streaming worship singing and the playing of wind instruments in online church services unless the worship originates from individual residences.
The order issued by the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors states, “No singing or use of wind instruments, harmonicas, or other instruments that could spread COVID-19 through projected droplets shall be permitted unless the recording of the event is done at one’s residence, and involving only the members of one’s household or living unit, because of the increased risk of transmission of COVID-19.”
The County Board warns, “Violation of or failure to comply with this Order is a misdemeanor punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both.”
Sounds smart to me, but a total ban of non-essential gatherings would seem to already include gathering to play instruments, so possibly redundant?
Music and gathering to play it and enjoynitnis essential. And first amendment. Anyone that disgrees can suck can eggm
Will the lockdown contribute in the long run to more elderly and those with preexisting conditions dying by delaying herd immunity?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg&feature=youtu.be
I suspect the area under the death curve, barring a fast vaccine or effective treatment, will be so close as to be the same either way.
That is the best YouTube presentation I’ve seen but it will not convince many people without literal hard, current evidence. And that is what makes Sweden’s decision to run counter to the panicked herd so interesting. They are following the same mathematics and will give clear evidence of they don’t panic.
Thank you for the link.
Researcher : so when were the first people here infected that showed up in January ? Would you like a good county job ? You sound more believable than most!
Thanks, but it’s kinda funny cause in the beginning of this thread I admitted to going off the deep end and chasing my tail around the room freaking out about the death rate for no reason. But I appreciate it.
The first known case was in Washington state Jan 21 and would have been tested two days earlier. This first case was someone who just returned from Wuhan so this was probably one of the first seeds. There were others we don’t know about by then, but what Bedford was trying to show was that the conspiracy theory that covid was here in Nov and Dec wasn’t true because it would have been established in the Seattle study. He also did sequencing stuff that I don’t understand.
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I’m a daily toker and I’ve read that smoking increases one’s chances of a worse COVID-19 outcome.
Weed smoke is nasty but it also contains protective cannabinoids.
Trying to find ANY COVID-19 cannabis-related deaths and have come up empty.
Where is the evidence weed smokers are dropping like flys?
Kevin Sabet of SAM has a bunch of propaganda at today’s New York Post.
Air pollution IS a significant risk multiplier for COVID-19, but is weed?
2400 deaths/24 hours in USA as of 04-16 reported.
4500 deaths/24 hours in USA as of 04/17 reported.
If anypne thinks we really have a handle on what’s happening take a good look at those numbers.
Testing is dismal across the USA and Humboldt isn’t doing any better at testing than other places.
Amazing how many service workers were not yet wearing masks before the California new order that everyone out and about Should be wearing masks.
We are going to see the mortality tallies continue to rise.