Four Additional Cases Reported Today, July 10
Press release from Humboldt County COVID-19 – Joint Information Center:
Humboldt County’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 165 after four new cases were reported today.
Of the 165 locals who have tested positive, 103 acquired the virus through contact with a known case, 37 acquired it through travel and 23 acquired the virus through community transmission. The means of transmission for two cases remain under investigation.
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Earlier Test Results:
- No Additional Cases Today, June 30
- Three New Cases Today, July 1
- Two New Positive Tests in Humboldt County on July 2
- Six New Cases Today July 3: Frankovich Points to Visits and the Cannabis Industry
- Five New Cases Reported Today, July 6
- Three Humboldt County Residents Test Positive Today; Six Out of County People Also Test Positive
- Four New Positive Tests in Humboldt County Today on July 9
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The US had it’s highest day of new cases on the 9th, 63m, then beat it on the 10th with 66.6m. The SunBelt is getting hit the hardest yet the heat of summer should have slowed the virus down according to your normal virus pattern. The death rate has gone through its lag cycle and is now setting record highs in some states (cant remember Texas, Florida?).
This shouldn’t be happening. Except it isn’t the original strain, it’s D614G, the nastier cousin, and its time to reconsider what to do. We could get away from lockdowns if everyone did the mask thing. Worth a thought.
There is a new pneumonia in Kazakhstan. More deadly than Covid. Masks will be around for a long while.
You mean there’s a new virus or bacteria that causes pneumonia? Because pneumonia is a condition not a pathogen.
Industrial, cruelty-unfree meat farmin’ll keep ’em comin’, guaranteed…
one plague after another… avians, swines, and mad cows all the way.
But who cares when all these wealthy corporations are making a killing. You guys excited about the new In-n-out?
66.6k researcher, your 66,534,000 too high, that explains everything. Peace out, have a nice weekend.
whoops. Spot on 66.6k. my bad. But the only thing it explains is my lack of sleep. And I hope you have a wonderful life LR. Don’t always agree but there you go.
Florida has 19 deaths per 100,000 California has 17 Texas has 10. There’s 3 states that are over 100 per 100k but they’re Democrat run so that’s not important. We’ll see if it changes in the next 2 weeks, but if it doesn’t change we’ll just have to wait another 2 weeks
🕯🌳California just posted 91 deaths and rising. 🖖🇺🇸
Maybe we should let the Democrats control other states too?
Maybe they could pull the Republican red states out of needing so much Governments assistance, ie being broke?
And maybe there would be some competition for CA and NY economies..
And then maybe more people would flock to bumfuck Alabama for some reason and populate it so Covid can spread easier..
How bout it Mike?
Maybe we should let the Democrats control other states too?
Maybe they could pull the Republican red states out of needing so much Governments assistance, ie being broke?
And maybe there would be some competition for CA and NY economies..
And then maybe more people would flock to bumfuck Alabama for some reason and populate it so Covid can spread easier..
How bout it Mike? Would that appease you?
I feel like the Democrats have done a good enough job of ruining their own states, they don’t need to carry their failing policy’s to other places. How’s our budget this year bud? 85 billion dollar pension liability? 54 billion dollar budget deficit? For defense last year Newsom was bragging about having a 8 billion dollar surplus. I could go on all day about the failures of this entire system that you praise, mainly because I have the ability to operate a calculator.
Good grief, you simply can’t help yourself viewing everything through a partisan lens, can you? What are you going to say in a few months when deaths in the sun belt are through the roof? New cases are skyrocketing in Florida and Texas isn’t far behind. Either one has the potential to displace New York as the #1 disaster spot. And, frankly, DeSantis bears a lot of the responsibility for fostering complacency in Florida for political reasons.
I can’t help it I watch the news. The news as been painting republican run states as the problem despite all numbers, those are the things on a calculator. The numbers could change in the next week but I’ve been hearing that for 6 months, so I won’t hold my breath. You have fatality rates that are 3 times higher in dem states but the news won’t touch that one with a ten foot pole.
They’re all trying to take a political bent. it’s not right. Trump’s a screw up but he always was. Would a democrat president have done better depends on who it is. Same with republicans. Some of the most out spoken criticism of Trump’s handling of covid has come from conservative republicans. We should try and find what went wrong and take necessary steps if enforcement is needed, but the most important thing is controlling this virus. It’s not a pretty beast and the amount of expertise being shown by the scientific community is not overwhelming mainly because so little is known about it.
Gotts to work together on this one.
PS. The death rate doesn’t matter either. It will always be high some places and not others. Right now the states hardest hit infected case wise are AZ, TX, FL and CA. These states need to get proactive and fast.
I Agree completely.
Although this mutation has made it easier for the virus to spread, according to https://www.studyfinds.org/d614g-new-mutation-of-covid-19-more-infectious/ it is not more deadly. And that has been noted since at least April so enough times gone by to know if it was indeed more severe.
Perhaps related, there is a theory that this recent surge throughout the sun belt is driven by air conditioning going full tilt. Chilling air preserves the virus before recirculating it, while heating air cooks the virus before recirculating it. But the general environmental conditions are less conducive to severe infection.
Nor will scientists admit it’s more deadly until it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, and thats months if not years away. There’s is penty of anecdotal examples to show it is.
🕯🌳These cases that we see being reported on this dashboard are about 5 to 8 days old. It takes that long and sometimes longer for the test to come back not taking in the fact that they might not see you for an appointment for a week.So during that time how much did these individuals have contact with others?🖖🇺🇸
A lot… I saw in a different article over 100 people are being asked to quarantine at the moment.
Where did you see that?
It was mentioned in an article on here as well but I originally saw it on Lost Coast Outpost.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2020/jul/7/today-supes-july-7-2020/
Good point. Test results pending would be good information.
So how do we know that people testing positive dont just have some small fragment onmf a coronavirus rna? Doesnt mean the world is infected.
Swine, I don’t know why you are having such a hard time understanding this thing. It’s real, it’s here (well, not as bad in Hum as other places but in general) and it’s infecting people. Only time will tell how much of the world gets infected. Right now new infections worldwide are running between 220,000 and 230,000 a day. If what is being modeled comes true and it takes off in the fall it wont take long to get just about everywhere. Trying to stop the whole world from getting infected is what its about.
We are all going to get it, the ridiculous mask isn’t going to stop people from getting it. Maybe check out your age group and the survival rate , these are hard numbers, most are in the 99.9 percent, if your over 80 stay sheltered, 79 percent is no good.
Except that proper guidelines, masking, social distancing, testing, contact tracing and good science based political leadership has limited the spread in many countries around the world. We have lacked in many of those things and suffer for it in both illness and economy. Meanwhile, we are a laughingstock while most first world countries are resuming some semblance of normal life.
Regardless of your political persuasion, we should all be able to agree that this virus is the enemy and we just can’t seem to. The two countries with the most suffering from this virus are (ironically) The United States and Brazil. Both countries presidents denied and downplayed the existence of the virus and measures to combat it. Sadly, people our countries continue to die, become ill, and suffer economically from these decisions. You only have to look around the rest of the world and know we are doing it wrong. People just can’t get over their me first and screw everyone else attitudes. A sense of commonality, of community, is what we lack and it is sad.
Most suffering? How about the countries that have the highest death rate per million. The united states death rate is low compared to other countries, isn’t that good? How do you know how much a person has suffered, you able to sync up with their feelings? I think this country has done pretty well, I personally am 17 times more likely to die of heart disease, and 15 times more likely to die an agonizing slow death with cancer.
The difference is you can change your personal outcome with those long term diseases. The spread of covid in the population is not based just on personal choices and genetic disposition, it is based on community choices. There is no community of spread cancer or heart disease from others to you potentially .
I can’t comment on everyone’s level of suffering, only that there is and has been needless suffering. 130k+ dead, millions infected. All those people have families who love/loved them. All of them are either limited or no longer contributing to society in the same capacity they once were. The economy has clearly been hurt by our infection rate and will not fully recover until enough people can return to the workforce and are comfortable with consumer spending in public in a meaningful way. You can say everything is fine and wish it away, but until people are no longer getting sick or dying in large numbers the economy will not recover. Death and infection rates are likely underreported. The argument that death rates are 4% or under don’t fully address the severity of the illness. Many people (myself included) have underlying issues from being infected with this illness several months after “recovering”. It is not like a flu where you get sick, then get better and you are back to normal, or at least it hasn’t been in my experience. I can tell by your comments that you haven’t had a case yourself or you don’t know anyone who has. You are obviously niave or blessed to not understand the reality of this disease.
I only know one person that has tested positive, he is 70 and said he was sick for a few days but feels fine now. Now back to the death rate being low in the United States, I think we have done pretty well compared to other countries that double our death rate. Come on , give this country a pat on the back ,[edit]
Fog Dog,
There are questions about how to manage this particular viral pandemic. Which actions will prevent needless suffering is not entirely clear. I have my favorites and half of them don’t advance the political agenda of either side of the debate or the financial agenda of major players in the health care system. These are largely ignored by both sides.
A few months ago Whitehouse.gov posted preliminary data that would have supported the continuously confirmed fact that outdoor transmission is ~1000 times less than indoor transmission under similar circumstances. Donald Trump decided to riff on the question of internal use of the disinfectant effects of UV light. Instead of paying attention to the science that pointed to a lot of possible solutions, EVERYONE went into an intensive debate about whether Donald Trump is an idiot.
There are numerous other examples including a recent study that showed that intensive skilled nursing in the early stages of an infection greatly reduced severity and mortality among vulnerable patients, Such resources and attention might well have improved your outcome.
On the other side there are repeated articles hyping the dangers. One case of “elevator button” transmission is used to counteract all of the data that suggest that surface transmission is very rare. A handfull of reinfections are used to refute the idea of “herd immunity” even though rare cases of reinfection are present with almost every disease, no matter what the herd immunity profile of the disease. I have personal experience with mononucleosis — lingering effects and the potential fatality of reinfection. Mononucleosis– Be very afraid?
It’s far to easy to put every concern about the mismanagement of this pandemic into either the category of it’s all right wing conspiracy or its all because anti-science and inhumane activities of people who don’t believe the truth. I have personal knowledge of the functioning of successful pandemic management teams, and the actions of the public health sector don’t reflect that kind of coordinated and constantly improving leadership.
People don’t trust directives grounded in fear and oversimplified information. So they gravitate to opositional defiant ways of coping.
To list my favorites:
Airplanes- shut em down. Bad for global climate. Bad for pandemics.
Outdoor Activities- find a way to do everything outdoors, particularly schools. Kids don’t need to sit in boxes.
Close the bars, open the schools- but not the cafeterias; crowded noisy rooms result in loud shouting and lots of heavy exhaling.
Nursing not ventilators.
Refuges for infected people and for contacts awaiting incubation and detection- household transmission accounts for more than half of cases in outbreaks. Or else provide guidance and and high levels of support for families of infected people sheltering at home.
Better HVAC in public housing and any othe shared living space.
Stop warehousing dying people (on psychotropic drugs to prevent them from behaving like humans) in “skilled nursing facilities.”
Begin to replace Managed Care (oxymoron) and the for profit hospital system which have wrecked the medical system- no room in hospitals for patients who don’t produce $10K per day in revenue through tests, procedures drugs and equipment. Overflowing, backed up emergency rooms cover for the lack of patient beds. Technology should be an adjunct not the point of medicine.
The Financial Times is doing a running excess mortality chart on all the states–only three states don’t yet show death numbers higher than normal. And, because of the way the government works, it will be at least a month before all of the deaths that have happened get added into the stats.