Third Person Dead With COVID-19 in Humboldt County; No New Positive Cases
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
A third person has died after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Humboldt County’s total case count remains at 98, as no additional cases were confirmed today.
The individual who died was a very elderly resident of Alder Bay Assisted Living. This person previously tested positive for COVID-19.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said, “Our thoughts are with the resident’s loved ones.”
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.–
Total new positive cases confirmed on May 28: 0
Daily COVID-19 case report for May 28
- Total number of confirmed cases: 98
- Total number of recovered cases: 72
- Total number of hospitalizations: 13
- Total number of deaths: 3
Transmission information for all known cases
- Contact to a Known Case: 57
- Travel-Acquired: 24
- Community Transmission: 17
- Under Investigation: 0
Total number of people tested by Public Health Laboratory: 2,897
Total number of people tested by all other sources: 3,025
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California Department of Public Health and commercial labs)The Public Health Laboratory currently has a capacity of approximately 1,900 tests and can process about 65 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:
- No Positive COVID-19 Tests Today, April 30
- No New COVID-19 Cases in Humboldt on May 1
- No Additional Positive Cases of COVID-19 were confirmed today
- Zero New Positive COVID-19 Tests on May 4
- Another Day With No New Positive COVID 19 Tests
- One New COVID Case in Humboldt on May 6
- No Additional Positive Cases of COVID-19 Confirmed May 7
- No Additional Positive Cases Confirmed Today, May 8
- Two New Positive COVID-19 Tests in Humboldt on May 9
- Four New Positive Cases, Two Cases Now Associated With an Assisted Living Facility
- An Error Reported in Saturday and Monday’s Daily Test Results
- Three New Positive Cases on May 12; One More at Alder Bay Assisted Living
- Three More Positive COVID-19 Tests, Two More From Alder Bay
- One New Confirmed COVID Case on May 14; Another Alder Bay Staff Member Is Positive
- Four New Positive Cases: Two Are Residents at Alder Bay
- Five New Positive Covid Cases Confirmed; This Includes Another Staff Member at Alder Bay Confirmed
- ‘First Loss of Life’ Reported Today, May 18, Four Additional New Cases Confirmed
- Five more Positive Cases and Second Death Today
- Two New Positive Tests for COVID-19
- No New Positive Tests on May 21
- Three New Additional Positive Tests on May 22; One New Case in SoHum This Week; 8 in Northern Humboldt
- Another Two Positive Cases in Humboldt County From Alder Bay Assisted Living
- One New Positive Case of COVID-19 Found May 25
- No New COVID-19 Cases Today, May 26
- Four New Cases of COVID Today, May 27
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🕯🕊🌳Prayers and condolences to all the families of all the victims. 🕊🛐🕊🛐🕊
You all know this is going to go on for years right? Some estimates into a decade. This is the new norm.
My Condolences . This is one hell of a virus .I am choosing vigilance over ignorance.Please stay 6 feet away from me.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3086177/coronavirus-uses-same-strategy-hiv-dodge-immune-response-chinese
Coronavirus uses same strategy as HIV to dodge immune response, Chinese study finds
Both viruses remove marker molecules on surface of an infected cell that are used to identify invaders, according to Chinese researchers
This commonality could mean Sars-CoV-2 may be around for some time, they say.
Vaccine trials are underway. Soon only the anti-vaxers need be at risk.
Once again I compelled to ask; what is the numerical age of this individual? “Very elderly” is not a number. Since 43% of all C19 deaths affected .6% of the population don’t you think this is a reasonable question? Why the reluctance to state their age? What are you hiding? Did you think your 15 minutes of fame would last forever? Come on county, fess up.
I agree. Why the hell are you using this term: “Very elderly”? WTF? What was their age?
Thanks for the info Teresa. There are many more of us out here who appreciate your looking out for us. There’s a fair amount of cabin fever driving these threads. You have the ultimate damned if you do and damned if you don’t job…hang in there.
Agree with you Dave. I think she’s doing a great job..Nobodys ever happy.Thanks for the positive comment.
US census data: 13% of the population is 75 years old or older. This group makes up 43% of Covid-19 deaths. The 0.6% of pop. is an understatement by twenty two times. And so what! Is the, only ‘0.6%’ of the population made to insinuate those deaths are, “much to do about nothing”. In this moment, for this person family, if you are going to minimize their death, at lest get your facts right.
Two point one million Americans live in nursing homes, which is .62% of the population, and are 43% of C19 deaths. In fact, if it weren’t for democrat governors mandating C19 patients to house with the most vulnerable we’d be looking at an even lesser percentage.
43% of deaths are in the 75+ age group. A fairly small portion of that group, by your stat, 4.6% live in congregate housing. That’s only one in twenty-five. I’m sure a disproportional portion of those deaths are from congregate housing. Following public health measures during a pandemic is not giving up your freedom. It is an act of caring and a civic responsibility. The reason that there are ‘only’ 100,000 deaths is because of the severe mitigation measures, without which the deaths would have been many times that. Opening up the economy without having it lead to many more thousands of preventable deaths, will require continuing mitigation and widespread sentinel testing. Doing your patriotic part is saving many lives. The 75+ age group are our elders, not collateral damage.
Disagree.. When have so many meaaures been takin during a”pandemic” before? Never. And more people R dying and more people will die. Wake up
So we supposed to shelter in place and not go to work for the next 3-5 years! That’s our “patriotic” duty? Hide in fear till old people stop dying? Brilliant….
Nonsense. There are consequences for every government action and it’s not all to the good by far. All these restrictions to keep the virus at bay have ripples that effect everyone. Are children never going to go to school? When will it be safe for them? Tomorrow? A month from now? 6 months from now? Will a person who has invested years of their lives and most of their earnings into a hair salon or restaurant be forced to abandon their business because the government has in essence ordered them out of business? Will people move on from the hard work needed to produce the Kinetic Sculpture Race or Humboldt Co Fair because of the indefinite restrictions on crowds? Will people’s frustrations over being prevented from socializing lead to violence, substance abuse or depression? Will charities fold because unemployment hits them with a double whammy of loss of funding and great demand? Will an older person wait to go to the hospital out of fear of contracting the virus and die from a stroke because they waited? There are a million consequences that can’t flicked off by announcing it will save lives when nothing being done will prevent the spread of the virus- just slow it down. And that presumption of slowing is only a guess too. These actions don’t just slow disease spread. They slow everything good too.
You seem to think that the status quo in January of 2020 was really great and no changes need to be made or we’re just fucked.
I have always believed that one of the things humans did well was ADAPT to new conditions☺
Adapt to forced orders and abolished freedoms while hiding in fear and giving up our income and dreams of prosperity. Yep. We all need to adapt to these new conditions because this is not only the new norm, but the future. Well said Karen. For every business that re opens, 5 close permanently. For every job opportunity that opens, 100 are left without a job. There will be no more stimulus checks. Unemployment payments are already drying up….remember, sacrifice your life and your family’s well being so old and diseased people can live for another 3 years. Yes 😁, we are fuked.
“Without death, life would be meaningless.” (Dave from megadeth)
It’s none of your business! Get a life!
And you will be the first to post they were ready to die anyway so what’s the big deal. Open everything up!!
Privacy for the victim’s family, jerk
People in elder care congregate centers need protection. Apparently all the deaths here so far are from these setting. But the question is how to do it when so many people who live outside the home come in and out every day to provide services. As long as the virus is circulating, the chance of a mistake allowing it in is always there.
And the xeaths dont say they ar ebecause of covid they say the “recently tested positive” i smell somethin rottin in denmark
I recently read that the CDC is going to have to revise the number of deaths from Covid-19. The numbers of people who died with Covid-19 from the number of people who died from Covid-19 is many. No one likes to hear that someone died and condolences to the family. But no one should want their family, friends or neighbors to face financial ruin either. When did we stop being the land of the free and home of the brave to the land of the controlled and home of the craven.
Of course they will; Colorado and New Jersey just called them out for overstating their state’s death toll by 22%. In other words, the CDC can’t count death certificates. Counting, the only truly precise form of measurement we have and bureaucrat clowns can’t even get that right.
The CDC is also telling us to wear masks in our own home with family members!!!!! Thank god for Facebook n zoom eh? We can self isolate in our rooms, afraid of our own family and just text each other! This is normal people? We are the experiment. Wake TFU!
🕯🌳This is why people need to go out to get tested. Some of the people going in and out of these places haven’t been tested, but there family members or even visiting physicians,with staff. There things that get delivered there as well and if there not using some kind of sanitation procedure on deliveries theirs also another way it can creep in.🖖🌍🐸
A person can be not infectious one day and infectious the next. If they go into an elder care facility pretty much most days, a test may catch it eventually but the chances are good not before a resident has been infected and infected others. So no, until and unless a rapid test is available, testing will not solve the problem.
Willi. You can’t get tested unless your sick…….
🕯🌳In 1968 I had the Hong Kong flu Sars #2 then in the military was dropped into two areas were there was #7 & #11 so now they come to my house and test me and take a pint of blood. 🖖🌍🐸This is how well they keep track of certain things. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🕯🌳Lassen County one of the first to open in northern California because they had no cases of Covid-19 has closed its doors and sort of its borders because people from places like here started going there and they became infected. 🚑🚑🚑🚑
So when will it be different? Stay at home and be safe until needs force going out? Put armed guards on the roads to keep others out including utility workers fixing the power or fire fighters or CHP?
Herd immunity!
I wonder if staying home and inactive creates some new vulnerable people every day? People never having developed any resistance because they never were exposed when they were healthy enough to deal with it?
FanOfGuest. Yep. They want us sick, weak and dumb. Look at the plan…… sick, weak , dumb and desperate. This is not about salvation, this is about control of not only population, but society itself. This is only going to get worse before it gets better. This…… is the new norm, and it’s not going anywhere.
Don’t go to work. Shop at amazon and Costco. If you congregate with people you will die. Don’t question authority. Wear your muzzle and stand on the line or you will be reprimanded . Next please…..
Watch out! They’re coming to take you away, ha ha.
Yesm exactly… And with the oversterilization of everything including our bodies people will continue to get sick and sicker and even from simple bugs otherbthan covid folks will need extra care.mm and masking our children in schools will exacerbate the problem. As a part of the flora and fauna we need to b exposed to germs and such to evolve with the planet.. Perhaps thats why covid is taking so many out esp in america.. We are overly unhealthy eating fake nasty low nutrient food and sterilizing everything.. And therefor we are weak.
There have always been contagions that were deadly. I would not go back to the days of “typical childhood diseases” because the people who survived them were stronger. I went through most of those diseases and I’m just as vulnerable to this new one as anyone else. There are choices of actions between the extremes of “let the strong survive” and “protect everyone” simply because neither is real. The “strongest” don’t always survive nor is it possible to protect everyone.
Instead of shutting down everything and trying to micromanage the unmanageable, government should be focusing on developing a stratagem for to minimize the spread to those to whom it is more certainly deadly while letting those who generally can deal with it get on with their lives because they are the people that provide the wherewithal for everyone. If course removing such severe restrictions on people will certainly create more cases. It’s not a perfect solution. That is the nature of a contagious disease. It’s not controllable without perpetual and effective restrictions that will never be possible in a country like the US. Eventually, slowly with restrictions or fast without them, pretty much everyone will be exposed until an effective vaccine is widely available.
If a vaccine is available… Everyone assumes its gonna happen.
Latest poll shows 50% of respondents would not be vaccinated. So how will that help?
Yeah, I’m in agreement with your idea about attempting to be over-sterilized. But, there’s another point.
The huge numbers in America are because we are able to scientifically and politically prove the validity of those numbers. Which nations are under-reporting?
We are over reporting
Its hard for me to understand why they would be inactive. Ive been able to get far more exercise than normal. We are allowed to go out after all, and have been this entire time. Actually it seems like more people are out exercising theses days than ever before.
Almost every expert agrees we (here in the US) and elsewhere are under-reporting. Records of higher deaths than normal in most countries support that.
So you think that places that report lower death rates are under reporting? Since the virus does not discriminate by country? Or could it be that different places have different standards for what constitutes a covid-19 death? “In the United States, which has the highest death toll in the world at more than 50,000, the counting method varies from one state to another: while New York counts deaths in care homes, California does not.” And “That lack of differentiation has been a bone of contention between the national institute which oversees epidemics and some of the country’s regions which presented lower death tolls because they carried out autopsies in order to determine the precise cause of death.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/world-cant-agree-on-how-to-count-covid-19-deaths-muddying-toll/
How many people died from the flu last year at Alder bay?
Crickets…..
According to this https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-covid-19-deaths-to-flu-deaths-is-like-comparing-apples-to-oranges/ probably zero.
“When reports about the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 began circulating earlier this year and questions were being raised about how the illness it causes, COVID-19, compared to the flu, it occurred to me that, in four years of emergency medicine residency and over three and a half years as an attending physician, I had almost never seen anyone die of the flu. I could only remember one tragic pediatric case.
Based on the CDC numbers though, I should have seen many, many more. In 2018, over 46,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses. Over 36,500 died in traffic accidents. Nearly 40,000 died from gun violence. I see those deaths all the time. Was I alone in noticing this discrepancy?…The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC’s reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths—that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus—has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620, which far lower than the numbers commonly repeated by public officials and even public health experts…The CDC should immediately change how it reports flu deaths. While in the past it was justifiable to err on the side of substantially overestimating flu deaths, in order to encourage vaccination and good hygiene, at this point the CDC’s reporting about flu deaths is dangerously misleading the public and even public officials about the comparison between these two viruses. If we incorrectly conclude that COVID-19 is “just another flu,” we may retreat from strategies that appear to be working in minimizing the speed of spread of the virus.”
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Hey Gust…What CDC stand for?? Isn’t that the outfit that YOUR president literally destroyed to the point where they can hardly do their job…….And….. as far as ”surviving a disease makes you stronger” Next time you meet a Childhood disease survivor…. of polio, say maybe, one that literally lost an arm , or both legs… Ask them if that limb works just fine , and ask to see their muscles….Ask them if they feel stronger than ever….[Edit]
Do you think the CDC is immune from corruption?.
I’m sure there was a good reason for cutting funding.
Like cutting the funding for the military industrial complex in peace time.
Like cutting the allowance to the kid who does repeated bad stuff.
https://time.com/3208886/whistleblower-claims-cdc-covered-up-data-showing-vaccine-autism-link/
https://undark.org/2019/04/24/anti-vaxxers-vaccines-trust-big-pharma/
One thing that was interesting in a link Kym used to say that the 1957 Asian flu virus was less deadly than the Covid-19 virus included a history of the CDC failing to identify that pandemic either nor institute protocols in the exact same way in both cases. Frankly despite the desire to blame Trump for everything, the CDC has failed most of the time with any pandemic. Despite the press’s desire to encourage that idea by lionizing them as a better alternative to Trump, they are a political organization that switched funding to document racial disparities rather than pandemic science under Obama, bioterrorism under Bush, and I’m sure just about every president did the same since it started.
The daily rate of deaths in USA, pre Covid, is 7254, more than 50,000 per week. (Google it. Somehow, this statistic is never mentioned anywhere. ).
We live our lives, and, at some point, we pass on. Live each day as best as you can…be kind& helpful. Life is a circle from birth to death. Our culture ignores, denies& fears death. There are compelling stories from intelligent credible people who have experienced death/near death& have written about it.
Wear your mask, keep distance, be calm&kind, helpful& strong.
If a vaccine is available… Everyone assumes its gonna happen.