One New Case of Community Transmission Today, June 16
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
One additional case of COVID-19 was reported today, bringing to 107 the total number of county residents who have tested positive for the virus. This new case was determined to have been acquired through community transmission.
New confirmed COVID-19 cases: 1
- Total confirmed cases: 107
- Total recovered cases: 101
- Total deaths: 4
- Total hospitalizations: 13
Transmission information for all known cases
- Contact to a Known Case: 61
- Travel-Acquired: 24
- Community Transmission: 22
- Under Investigation: 0
Number of tests run since last report
- Public Health Laboratory: 21
- OptumServe public testing site: 54
Total tests run to date
- Public Health Laboratory: 3,771
- OptumServe public testing site: 3,524
- Willow Creek public testing site: 26
Public Health Laboratory testing Information
- Supply capacity: Approximately 2,000 tests
- Testing capacity: 70 samples per day
- Turnaround time: 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].
One additional case of COVID-19 was reported today, bringing to 107 the total number of county residents who have tested positive for the virus. This new case was determined to have been acquired through community transmission.
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Earlier test results:
- Humboldt County Has Two New Cases Today May 30
- One Additional Positive Test Today June 1 in Humboldt County
- Fourth COVID-Related Death, One New Case Reported Today
- One Additional Case Today, June 3
- No New Positive COVID Tests Today, June 4
- No New Positive Tests on June 5
- No New Positive Tests for COVID-19 on June 6
- One New Positive Test on June 8
- No New Positive COVID Tests Reported Today, June 9
- No New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases on June 10
- Another Day of No New Positive Tests on June 11
- One New Positive Test on June 12
- No New Positive Tests Today June 15
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So!!!
So it’s a good reminder that it’s still here, and unless we keep taking measures to slow the spread, 1 case can become 100,000 cases shockingly quickly.
In the good news department, a seemingly reliable study has found a drug that reduces the death rate 25-30%. That’s a big number. It’s a good thing we’ve been able to keep so many people from getting infected for long enough for this drug to be found, and hopefully we can still keep people from being infected until even better treatments are found.
Yea its called being healthty.. Having a strong immune system..
So in, other words, fuck the old people? Your compassion is moving me to tears.
🕯🌳Damn just can’t get that winning streak in there yet.🖖🌍🕊🐸
And in Trinity, another case popped up.
http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_96ed79d0-aaae-11ea-b6d5-2fe322ab75e3.html
OMG! It’s the long rumored second wave!
It is a 100% increase in cases. BOOM! Cases double in Trinity just like that… that’s what happens when you let your guard down.
Or it happens right on schedule.
Those bastards are going to crush the economy and whatever independent minded freedom loving people have taken for granted.
Please come up with a coherent explanation for why people who depend on the economy and tax revenue for their wealth would want to crush the economy and tax revenue.
Mental disconnect. If your livelihood flows in from government sources, it is easy to forget where it originates. Not everyone with a social agenda does poorly when public panic is hyped. Facebook, social media, advocates, charities, press, etc see their revenues increase. At least in the short term.
But that is not who the biggest beneficiaries of crisis are. It’s those who have an activist agenda that has not prospered who see the opportunity in in disrupting those who have ignored or resisted them. And they do not rely on their own labor but in receiving money from those who prosper no matter what.
@PW, good thing you aren’t one of the “independent minded”.
These numbers mean nothing unfortunately, other than letting us know that the virus is still here. A big thank you to our local public health branch for continuing to toil away with the rudimentary tools they have been given to do a very hard job. I appreciate them letting to let us know that it is still spreading within our community. We all should listen with open ears.
Thank you!!
Good thing Humboldt isn’t like Shasta County where they had that rodeo and opened up too early…
Oh, nevermind.
https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/06/15/california-coronavirus-shasta-county-covid-19-cases-reopening-guidelines/3188739001/
Good thing, Humboldt isn’t like Texas? https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/16/texas-coronavirus-spike-young-adults/
If someone with the disease didn’t attend the rodeo, then it wouldn’t have spread of course. The danger is that someone with it will go to large gatherings and then you end up with a spike in cases and it spreads.
Remember when SIP was about “flattening” the curve, not eliminating it? All data is showing that healthy people contracting covid have a low chance of complications. .. something like the flu.
Yes, so let’s just kill and the elderly and unhealthy people, you know, the ones who have a high chance of complications, so the rich can profit slightly more.
Some parts of the US are currently reaching hospital capacity because the curve wasn’t flattened enough. If hospital capacity is exceeded, the death rate will go up. Flattening the curve is working. And, as I pointed out above, delaying the infections has already allowed a lot of people to potentially benefit from a new drug treatment which will significantly reduce how many of them die. The more we can delay infections, the more likely other effective treatments will be found.
Foolish.
Quarantine the old and those in high risk groups. Simple solution.
If NY is having a problem, NY can deal with their problem. Same for any metropolitan area. These measures don’t translate to most of the country.
Actually, the worst growth right now is in rural areas, like ours.
Yup. Trinity’s case count just doubled!
It’s not that we have been overwhelmed, yet.
Responding the way CA did, saved not only lives, but infections, IC necessities, resources, etc.
And it gave do-littles a chance to complain.
Now that we can look back and say, “it wasn’t to bad here”, doesn’t mean we know shit about the future; tomorrow or Nov.
You’re responses are like Captain Smith responding to the first officer who just told him “we’re sinking”, with, “yeah, but we’ve only sunk one inch”.
“No need to bother the guests”.
Short of facts you use analogies. Neither pertinent nor poignant.
The “authorities” have erred every step of the way on this catastrophe. It’s only a catastrophe because of the consistent bungling.
Fact:
Behind the “Spanish Flu” in Oct 1918, April 2020 was the deadliest month for Americans because of SARS-Cov2.
And you never thought it possible, nor a problem.
So facts or analogies, you don’t listen.
And you only provide facts that support your position while ignoring the myriad of facts that do not, so what’s the difference? If you have all the right answers (yes, you are a genius with your hindsight) why aren’t you in charge of the state or national response? Thanks, but I’ll put my faith in the experts, not some fool on the internet who cannot admit what he doesn’t know and faults others for their efforts to keep people safe while trying to ascertain through research what the risk actually is.
Global death rate for “Spanish” flu: 1% – 5.4%
Global death rate for Covid 19 : 0.0058%
Spanish flu was between 172 and 932 times more deadly.
The average age of those who die from covid 19 are older than the average lifespan in the US.
The average age of death for the Spanish flu was 28.
Are you really so defective that you computed the percentage of people who have died _so far_, and presented it as if it was a final number? Why do you waste everyone’s time with idiocy like that?
I can only use the number I have. Are you willing to argue that the death toll from covid 19 may increase 172 times? These are comparative numbers in real time and have all the unknowns built into that fact.
Why do waste everyone’s time with thinly veiled condescension?
I’m pretty sure I didn’t try veiling it.
Just because you have some numbers doesn’t mean you should use them to create other bullshit numbers. You can’t compare a total number from one pandemic to a number from a pandemic that might just be getting started, and then claim one is much more deadly because of it.
I can do that too! Did you know that the covid-19 virus has mutated? Two months ago, the global death rate for covid-19 was only .0015%. Now it’s .0058%! It’s gotten almost four times deadlier!
That is, of course, total bullshit. And you know this.
Local antibody testing shows about 1% of people have antibodies, which suggests about 1% of people have been infected. The death toll could certainly increase 100 times if this is true.
I’m presented with two options. The first, and one I consider unlikely, is that you honestly believe that you performed useful math, or honestly believe that no further people will die. The second, and far more likely, is that you’re intentionally spouting useless numbers to try to make a point that useful numbers can’t make. And I don’t have much patience for people who intentionally mislead others.
Your cohort in fear mongering chose the Spanish flu as a benchmark; I simply put it in relative terms.
You’re misleading yourself with your self-righteous BS. Perhaps you’re old and infirm and truly afraid of what this coronavirus may do to you. If so, self quarantine and take appropriate measures, but don’t try to suck everyone else into your fear.
I’m not afraid, I’m aware.
Quit sucking people into your ignorant obfuscating.
The Spanish Flu was the only thing deadlier to Americans for 1 month of our history with SARS-Cov2.
It’s not my choice, it’s history.
Except you didn’t put it in relative terms, because you compared numbers that weren’t measuring the same thing, in an obvious attempt to mislead people.
China is locking down parts of Beijing again after less than 100 reported cases .They take sars-cov-2 deadly serious.I have been wondering why ?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7182030/
Thus, recovery may be an ambiguous term regarding COVID-19. Though recovery from the acute phase of the infections is certainly a relief in public health terms, helping to stop the spreading of the infection, one must consider the long-term neurological effects of the disease. This discussion has been conspicuously lacking in pertinent forums and needs to be adequately addressed as an important concern by public health officials. Many authorities are focusing only on the risks posed to the elderly and immunocompromised subjects, downplaying the threats to younger populations.
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https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-effects-symptoms
The difficulty is sorting out long-term consequences,” says Joseph Brennan, a cardiologist at the Yale School of Medicine. While some patients may fully recover, he and other experts worry others will suffer long-term damage, including lung scarring, heart damage, and neurological and mental health effects.
I can remember my grandmother always battling pneumonia every winter. She said that one winter she got the flu and it turned to pneumonia, after that her lungs had been damaged and always fought pneumonia. So was that COVID-19 or is the flu pretty much the same? How come I had pneumonia at a young age and never have had it again, the same goes for my significant other. Doesnt pneumonia cause lung damage? I’ve had a kidney infection until I’m pissing blood but never another issue, didn’t that infection cause kidney damage? How come I haven’t had more problems with them? Fear causes irrational behavior, look where we are now.
You might try actually making a point.
Although, since Kym turns a blind eye to certain people being egregiously insulting, the Lone Ranger has a point about stupidly making things worse out of fear when little is as clear as the fear mongers make it. That is enough of a point.
Yes, I do let you get away with some snippy comments but I let others get away with those types of comments too.
The answer to your question is “no, your grandmother did not have SARS-Cov2.”
Where are we now?
Not overwhelmed hospitals?
200,000 lives saved.
2 million hospitalizations avoided.
That wasn’t fear.
That was brains.
Thanks, Fauci.
You do know that a lot of the “elderly” still have to work, too, right?
Or do all the people you know 60 and over are now retired.
You remind me of that line from some movie:
Some of YOU will die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.
Ummmm… ok. So let’s keep everyone from working because there’s a narrow demographic of people who are severely effected from the virus…. is that your argument?
People who still work over 60 isn’t a tiny sliver. There are about 10 million 65 and over who still work. Social Security doesn’t even kick in until about 67 now.
Can’t find the numbers for 60 to 65, but did see that by 2024, 25% of the work force will be 55 plus.
And they should be able to work. When I said quarantine I didn’t mean forced quarantine. Freedom is dangerous and we all are responsible for our self’s.
A most serious defect is in thinking quarantine protects those who are not quarantined. Quarantining sick people works but only if all sick people are isolated before they can spread the virus. Quarantining all people would work too but then most people will starve or die of something else sooner or later. Those needing to work are spreading the virus among each other anyway.
🕯🌳But since we’re opening up are hotels and air bnd’s and salons all those people from elsewhere will be coming here. Some with worse cases than we’ve seen here. Already started seeing Nevada, Utah, New York, New Mexico and others already here. Get ready,the summer and the sun should keep it at bay for a few short months so have fun suck some free vitamin D and 🛐 we don’t burn this summer. 🌍🐫🖖
Flattening the curve is what not having large gatherings is designed to do.
Like protests?
The protests are a possible source of contagion. Like the rodeo, they are mostly outdoors so that helps. But I find them concerning.
Some argue, I think with merit, that the risk to lives is worth it because with social change more lives will be impacted positively than would be harmed. I think that equation is something each person is going to have to decide for themselves. Some folks are going to argue that a rodeo is of equal value to social change…I wouldn’t be one of them.
If you are going to entertain that argument it should be applied to the social value or social loss of shutting down an economy and up ending the lives of millions.
There are people who sincerely (more or less) believe the ends justify the means. Although those who think that way don’t acknowledge they never get the rosy “ends” they tout. Thus, for them, clearly disrupting those who run a business is justified in the name of public safety while they support protests, which create additional misery for businesses by clearing the way for looters, vandals, arsonists, on the off chance they might effect the change they want. Then complain about capitalists being rapacious opportunists.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
True. And the means needed to force compliance drags the activist do-gooder into the lowest levels of brutality pretty fast. Unfortunately they forgive their own brutality as necessary while resistance to their rules just convinces them to double down. It is always unthinkable to socialists that it is possible to disapprove of what is objectionable while recognizing that trying to “fix” people creates worse.
OH NO!!!
Or like Union County Oregon.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/coronavirus-outbreak-linked-to-eastern-oregon-church-surpasses-200-cases.html
Yikes!
Allowing churches to open is one of the stupidest things I can think of… They’ve been the source of several outbreaks demonstrating they absolutely can cause large numbers of infections from even a single event, they’re not less dangerous than in-person instruction and many other things that are currently prohibited, and they’re about the least-essential activity imaginable, only slightly more essential than repeatedly jabbing a sharp stick in your face. But it seems there’s a large overlap between people who are unable to think about what an exponential curve looks like and the people who want imaginary sky people to think for them, and our public health department isn’t willing to actually grow a spine and tell them to sod off.
There are people who believe all sorts of things. Like gay people spread the virus and are condemned for bar hopping by their haters. As hateful as condemning religious people for their activities because their haters use the opportunity to express their own bigotries.
Maybe the point to be learned is that the hater is more likely to get it wrong than the groups they hate. Having a point is not the same as having a good point.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/05/12/with-new-covid-19-outbreak-linked-to-gay-man-homophobia-on-rise-in-south-korea/#4fd42e9c4909
On a side note, for general information… because it’s been a burning question on my family’s mind this week and enquiring minds want to know. And Trinity County has been blackout quiet on their lock-down plans.
Got the call from the the Ruth Rec campground folks, this morning:
We’re buggered for our plans *this* weekend; but the camp is officially opening on June 25.
well i guess the two weeks came and went but the double think remained, shocker.
Covid1984,
thanks.
Thanks you trimagent. What wood we do without you.
Please, no masks.
Wildberries. Where that special “healthy” food is! Says they didn’t have much contact with customers but doesn’t that still mean they coud have been working with open food- like in the deli? Great hot bar over there by the way….https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2020/jun/17/wildberries-marketplace-notifies-customers-one-its/