Humboldt County Recommends Getting Tested for COVID-19
“COVID-19 RE-TESTING AVAILABLE: Each COVID-19 test for infection serves only as a “snapshot in time”. That’s why it’s important for community members to be tested every 14 days. This is especially recommended for healthcare workers, retail and dining employees and others who work closely with people. Receiving a COVID-19 test result that is “negative” is good news, but it offers no evidence of protection against future infection. To register for a COVID-19 test or a re-test go to https://lhi.care/covidtesting or call 888-634-1123.”
UPDATE Friday: Christine Messinger of the Humboldt County Joint Information Center wanted to clarify their position, she said, “We encourage everyone to get tested on an ongoing basis and while there is no particular interval recommended, we do not recommend testing more often than every 14 days.”
We will talk to her tomorrow and work on getting out a clear explanation of best practices.
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Not a lot of info here to devise a plan for reintegration of coworkers. So you can be infected yet it won’t show up in a test for how long? Somebody coming off the road can be infected from “out there” yet test negative for how long until a test shows positive? 14 day quarantine for everybody coming into here from “out there” is still the strategy but does that mean that the virus can incubate in them for up to 14 days before they show a positive test? Asking for a friend who needs to get their workers to work…And wow- maybe I’m nitpicking but that registration info needed before appointment is pretty detailed and specific and I know many many people who are uncomfortable with that level of information release to government agencies. Isn’t there a way to go get a test w/o all that registration info? seems like we should not have any hurdles to discourage people from testing…
“that registration info needed before appointment is pretty detailed and specific and I know many many people who are uncomfortable with that level of information release to government agencies”
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2020/may/28/trust-barriers-pose-challenge-for-coronavirus-test/
Do WHAT?
There is no reason on earth to get tested, ever, unless you have symptoms.
This is straight government repression, and fear-mongering, out of control.
It is a fantastic waste of resources, and, if you test positive, your life will be strictly controlled and monitored by government agents, until you allow the government to control you, forever…
Some random,
thanks.
Do you not undestand what “nonsymptomatic” means? It means you can have something contagious without any symptoms. HIPPA laws protect all your medical info, which includes any registration info you use to sign up. They don’t ask anything the government doesn’t know about people already. There is proof there are 3 or 4 separate covid ” chains of transmission” circulating here. That means 4 different groups of people spreading it to others they are around. Most of these folks don’t have symptoms and don’t know they have it. If people keep discouraging others from getting tested this disease will linger here for months or years. Businesses and stores and schools will have to reclose and stay closed. No one wants that. People need to stop being paranoid of the ” gov getting my info”, and go get tested to get this disease caught and gotten rid of..
Getting a “test” will not control anything, except the next two weeks of your life, if you test positive. Testing will not get rid of a disease…
“Asymptomatic” means “showing no symptoms”. An “asymptomatic” person, can still develop antibodies…
Everyone, everywhere, has about a 60% chance of already having exposed, and being recovered.
Soon, there will be direct monoclonal antibody tests, at a public or hospital lab, near you!
The best thing we can expect from “testing everyone every 14 days”, is a lot of uselessly collected information, that we will have no way to control. A bad idea, a gigantic waste of resources, and, a very serious invasion of our privacy.
A stupid idea, in the wrong place and time.
Dear Ice. All year round most of us are walking about with asymptomatic bugs that we spread constantly. We are all, and have always been ‘contagious’ with one thing or another, to varying degrees. This is how are immune systems work. There is nothing particularily deadly about CV19. Your immune system is your responsibility. If you feel vulnerable, by all means stay home. But this virus has been here for months now and is likely well omnipresent in the general populace.
Thank you, Faithful.
The only way this will end, is when people have been exposed, and develop antibodies, naturally!
C-19 is not an assassin, sent from hell! It’s not the super-flu that will wipe out all humans, and it’s not a terrorist plot either!
The REAL terrorist, is the fear that is being spread by the ignorant, the news media, and our government…
If you want to hide, hide! If you want to wear a mask, wear a mask!
If you are afraid, I urge you to release your fear, and gather your strength to move forward…
Healthcare workers get immunity from constant exposure. Eventually, everyone will have immunity, and the epidemic will ease…
“Healthcare workers get immunity from constant exposure?”
“The coronavirus continues to batter the U.S. health care workforce.
More than 60,000 health care workers have been infected, and close to 300 have died from COVID-19, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/28/863526524/covid-19-has-killed-close-to-300-u-s-health-care-workers-new-data-from-cdc-shows
Don’t take everything so literally! General immunity to many antigens.
It is very sad that healthcare workers lives were jeopardized by C-19 when they were forced to work without adequate PPE, adequate staff, and adequate facilities. It is a national disgrace that hospitals were unprepared while administrators make record salaries, and corporate officers make millions…
Our healthcare system is a shambles, a mere shadow of what it once was.
The longer you work in healthcare, the less you get sick. I worked 42 years, and the sickest I got was in 2016, when one of my coworkers refused to stay home when she had the flu, and I caught it at the age of 64. I thought I would die, wished for death, and nobody shut down the economy, sheltered in place, or wore a mask…
We can’t continue to live under these conditions, and the real disease is the fear to go forward…
Top 10 leading causes of death:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929#kidney-disease
Shall we all give up? 2 million people died!
Not to be too literal but 359,791 people have been counted as dead of COVID-19 but that’s estimated by most experts to be a lot more. One estimate is that it is 25% higher which puts it much closer to a 1/2 million dead. And, of course, we’re in a historic lockdown–Imagine how many more would have died if we hadn’t sheltered.
Here’s a reasonable discussion on that topic:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/working-stiff/85925
Silly to waste time thinking about possible outcomes, but we are starting to sound like Trump vs Twitter here…
Thanks for your service, Ms Kemp!
AND: As Robert Chang, MD, DSc, Professor of Medicine UC Davis, a very well known Virologist, always said:
“If it was going to kill everyone, we would already be dead”…
According to Cuomo in NY, the infection rate is lower for health care workers than the general populace. However that does not take away the huge credit they deserve for the risk they take in doing their jobs to take care of others while the rest of us hide out. It maybe they have a lower risk because they know how better reduce their exposure. But it also does not provide evidence that refutes anyone’s statements about immunity.
The corona virus confers no immunity. Nice try though
That is pure ignorant poppycock.
Don’t spread lies!
You best hope it does. Otherwise no vaccine is possible.
100,000 dead in 5 months, not too deadly
The first case was reported February 28th. THREE MONTHS AGO
Very accurate. Thanks!
The first case was reported in the US in January 2020. The first case that was not travel related or a known contact to a travel related case was reported on 2/27/20.
Nope, first case was in January. The first death was February.
First reported but def not the first.
If you test positive, you are asked to stay home for 14 days. That is all. No tracking, no chip, no following you forever. Just stop making crap up. We need to get rid of covid. To do so people need to be tested. End of story. The “Fear mongering” is telling people lies about being tracked by government agents for a simple covid test. Its not true, and causes fear repeating crap heard on the internet or some fringe news site..
Plus, the government has been tracking you for years now, so get over it
Grusome Newsom is in the process of hiring and on-line training 10,000 Contact Tracers that will have the power to remove you from your own home and placed in government quarantine is they so choose. This is a fact, do the research.
I have been trained as a covid contract tracer and what you are saying is BS. You would be asked to quarantine in your OWN HOME but since you seem conspiracy theory based likely no facts will help you.
You know little about testing. There are very good reasons for blanket testing. I would explain them to you, but I doubt scientific evidence would convince you. On another subject California has had close to 100,000 confirmed infected citizens adding 2240 new people infected since yesterday and nearly a total of 4000 fatalities. That’s like the entire community of Rio Dell. This virus is nowhere close to being eliminated. It’s a good thing more intelligent minds are heeding and practicing preventative methods.
Can you explain the benefits of blanket testing instead of telling me I couldn’t be convinced by scientific facts? I’d like to make up my own mind.
Thanks, Dr. Fauci. The Beast is very happy you are getting so many people in line with his master plan.
HIPPA
Weird. This quote about registration info was added to my original post but then disappeared, now reappears under Guest? Anyways the rest of my comment said “It seems like we should not be putting such hurdles in the way of people wanting to get tested”. We want people to get tested- we should make it easy and not ask for so much detailed personal info, especially around here where people are suspect of releasing so much info. Is there a place to get tested that is less intrusive about your personal info?
“…my friend has this question….”
It’s all about the info
They need your personal info info to catalog the DNA from your swab.
Those that didn’t pay for “23& me” and “ancestry.com” still need to have their DNA in the database.
🕯🌳What I was told everytime I get tested is that no matter what you can walk out the door and catch it from the people to scared to be tested. 🌍🖖🐸
What possible good is it to test you so much? Are you violating social distancing orders so that you are likely to get infected or pass it on? People are not afraid . They just recognize the foolishness of getting repeated tests if they are not either symptomatic or likely to spread it. In fact going to get tested would seem like an unnecessary exposure for many.
The people who need testing are medical workers, especially ones taking care of elderly, and people in contact with the public like grocery personnel.
And were you told that getting an accurate sample is uncomfortable process? But if it isn’t uncomfortable, it is likely to miss low amounts of virus?
“False negative results are likely occurring because health care providers aren’t collecting samples with enough of the virus for the tests to detect…
This relatively high risk of false negatives is why doctors don’t just rely on a test to determine if a person has the coronavirus. If a person presents with classic symptoms of COVID-19 and is in an area with an outbreak, doctors will often diagnose a person with the disease is spite of a negative test.” https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/covid19-coronavirus-tests-accurate/
Guest,
thanks.
Agreed test the health care workers, the primary concern is to make sure the health care workers don’t have it.
🕯🌳Why do you talk to yourself? Red.🌍🖖🐸 I get tested so much because I give a pint of plasma each time. 🖖🕯🕯🕯🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Does the county have the testing capacity to test everyone every 14 days?
A good question that we will ask next time we are given the ability.
Um…. No! Its the federal “control everyone” lab, who refers testing to outside companies, who all intend to get wealthy, from C-19 testing…On the Federal Government dime…
I was just going to ask that. Humboldt county has a population of about 135k, so that would be over 9,600 tests per day. If each test only took 1 minute they would need 10 test sites operating 16 hours a day.
and i recommend you shave your ass
Tax payer,
thanks.
Are these people living in the same reality as me? I went to my Dr. to give blood for a Thyroid test & they never even mentioned it to me. Who is going to pay for this shit? What a fucking joke.
What is the cost for these tests…..every 14 days. Sounds like a lot of out of pocket cash to me. It also sounds a lot like the CDC guidelines for reopening the schools. Children all wearing masks, 6 feet apart, no recess, etc, Unrealistic at best.
Total cover-up.
The sheriff and tourist officials just released an article saying everything is fine – BS.
People are coming into the county from out of state, not wearing PPE, and workers are symptomatic and leaving the county to get tested, and turning up positive.
Places were sold out for memorial day, and the tourists were from all over the country. This stuff gets reported, and then it never gets acted on because A.) the financial disincentive and B.) the political divide.
Free. Insurance pays for it 100%. No copay. If you dont have insurance, the state picks up the tab. Kinda shoots your argument all to hell, huh?
I’ve heard that story before….sometimes it works, sometimes not. I know from personal experience. So, no, it does not shoot my argument
all to hell.
🕯🌳I think there trying to be prepared for next fall,right now the heat and the measure we’ve taken have worked and have fairly well kept it at bay. But next fall could be a different story if alot of people are asymptomatic and don’t know it.🐸🖖🌍
Willie Bray- I agree. Testing is important to head off the next big wave. My comment above was not meant to belittle the testing. I believe testing is important for our understanding of this virus and I think we need to test more, intrude less and understand more. Right now everybody is flying off w/ their own theories because we do not have good data based on actual testing.
It’s a very biased at the very least. The people likely to show up will be weighted towards those afraid of getting infected so have likely avoided it or those who are having symptoms. The vast majority in between will be missed. Self selection is rarely a good sample.
that’s a lot of testing. Do they have enough kits?
🕯🌳There is were the problem lays. The County can only afford so many. And I agree with the fact that healthcare workers and caregivers should be tested once a week. Research what there doing overseas with a phone app. Alot of people over here would go apeshit if they decided to do it here.🌍🐸🖖🇺🇸🇺🇸
I think that the group if any, that should be tested if any, would be all health care workers.
In my opinion I don’t think the community should be tested every 14 days.
Just wanted to add that this study showed that the infectivity of covid carriers is weak.
“In summary, all the 455 contacts were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 infection and we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219423/
Out of the 3 or 4 transmission chains right now in humboldt, only 1 is healthcare workers..The rest of these cases are being passed around by the general public. So to end these chains, the general public should be tested. Why not? It’s free, only takes 5 minutes, and then you know. Not a big inconvenience to get the society back up and running…
Is it likely that any of those “other” first link in chain would have been likely to be tested just for “the public good?” Maybe if it was made convenient but otherwise?
All this fear porn has got me so scared I’m wearing a mask all by myself in my mommie’s basement! NO WAY will I venture out to get tested.
WHY is it NO ONE is recommending boosting your immune system with a daily dose of Vitamins C, D3, and perhaps a little zinc?
Probably because you can’t boost your system enough to prevent virulent viruses…
Guess again:
“Of course, fighting off viral infections is possible only with a strong and healthy immune system. Here are some tips that can help you boost your immune system:”
https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/02/01/20/tips-to-help-your-immune-system-fight-viral-infections
Ice .. Oh yes you can certainly resist viruses. You have just been listening to way too many intentionally frightening news feeds and commercials. Bunch of people profitting off this B.S.
Maybe you should pay more attention to the D3, Vit C and zinc reccomendations.
Um yes you can… Dont be so blind…
I emailed the county at [email protected] and asked about testing capacity. Here’s the response I received:
“At this point we are able to test everyone who wants a test, and we are adding additional capacity. There may be a several day wait for a testing appointment.
Testing (and re-testing) at Redwood Acres remains free of charge, even if your insurance only pays for the initial test.”
County of Humboldt – Public Health
[email protected]
I suppose that it could possibly turn up an asymptomatic person sooner or later if they were caught just at the time between too low a virus count to record or too far after exposure to still have the virus. But is that enough of a likelihood to justify the risk of expisure to test hundreds of others?
Who are these contact tracers?
How many are there?
Are they new hires, like census workers?
Do they have a medical back round?
How exactly do they know if some one remained in quarantine or self isolation?
inquiring minds want to know!
Please let me know when they will be testing in Garberville, so I can avoid it there also…
My Grandfather always said to, “Avoid beds and hospitals, people die there.”
Especially in Garberville.
I believe RRHC does testing
Amen Ernie…Think I’ll get a beware of DOG sign!
and borrow a poodle lol
My good friend has been sick with a sore throat and thought she had strep. She went to the Willow Creek clinic. No strep. They would not test her for covid cause she “didn’t have symptoms.” The whole point of the lockdown was so the healthcare system could get ready. Little has been done. Just a postponement of the problem.
If the County is retesting the same people then a retest should not be included as #of people tested as that would skew the percentage of citizens that have been tested in relation to positive tests.
I’d rather resources went to accurate antibody testing, and then test folks for that. Of course, we need to know for sure that having the antibodies does protect you from future infections. Put resources into finding out more about that! For now get tested a few days after not being careful, or otherwise possibly exposed.
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My husband & I got tested. It took them 10 days to give us the results. So, unless they are able to fast-track the results to the people tested, the only benefit I
see in testing, is statistical.