Hoopa Valley Sees 23 New Cases This Week

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Graphic put out when the Hoopa Tribe was requesting masks.

The number of known COVID-19 cases rolled into Hoopa Valley Reservation this week like a tidal wave shocking the community. Early on Monday, the reservation had one known case and that person was no longer considered contagious. However, by late Monday, Hoopa Office of Emergency Services reported there were six known active cases. By Tuesday night, Eva Smith, M.D., M.P.H., Public Health Officer reported via the Hoopa Office of Emergency Services, “[T]here are 12 New Positive COVID-19 cases.”

Then late last night (Wednesday), Hoopa Office of Emergency Services announced that the reservation now had a total of 24 cases, 23 of which were currently active.

The rapidly growing number of cases on their lands prompted the tribe to shut down non-emergency operations for two weeks “to allow for contact tracing to be completed as well as for individual tribal departments to create reopening safety plans.”

The tribe also reiterated the emergency ordinance in effect on the reservation during the crisis which include that those living there are not allowed to travel out of the county “without an approved Travel Safety Plan” which is a form provided by the Tribe’s COVID-19 Incident Management Team. In addition, the rules include “Non-residents are restricted from visiting the reservation” and “Some areas of the reservation are temporarily off-limits, even to tribal members.”

Dr. Teresa Frankovich, Humboldt County’s Public Health Officer, clarified yesterday that Hoopa Valley Reservation cases are counted as part of Humboldt County’s and appear on the dashboard. However, she pointed out, “[T]hey don’t always become part of our data on the same day that those test results are available to Hoopa, because we actually need to receive copies of those test results and vet those, etc., before they become part of our case count.”

 

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Just Saying
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Just Saying
3 years ago

Let’s hope they get a grip on this and it doesn’t become a fiasco.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago
Reply to  Just Saying

🕯🌳I’ll second that. So are these added to the Humboldt dashboard?

Willie Bray
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3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

🕯🌳Thank you Kym for the information.

Jorge Cervantes
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Jorge Cervantes
3 years ago

If they don’t reopen the transfer station again soon to non-tribal members. Most of the down river community plans on feeding the fish in the river. That will be the real catastrophe.

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago

Sounds like all the recent increase in cases is localized to Hoopa. Sad for them and the quarantined individuals but that’s no reason to affect businesses and schools elsewhere in Humboldt.

Downriverlady
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Downriverlady
3 years ago

Shut up moron! They haven’t been counting Hoopa cases so that rise is in the Eureka area also. Stay the heck home and take care of your kids. Yea it’s hard but suck it up and do it. I am so tired of hearing people shine and not take it seriously! Protect your children!

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Downriverlady

Wrong. Feankovich already said Hoopa cases are included in her stats so pretty much all this week’s Humboldt increase came from Hoopa and no where else.

Lazydaze
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Lazydaze
3 years ago

She also said “[T]hey don’t always become part of our data on the same day that those test results are available to Hoopa, because we actually need to receive copies of those test results and vet those, etc., before they become part of our case count.”

So we don’t know if the recent case counts include Hoopa yet. You are making assumptions.

Amanda
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Amanda
3 years ago

Thats right. On the day we had five new cases in Hoopa, Humboldt County and the local news outlets reported three new cases. Clearly, we were not counted right away in the county total. It takes a day or two to be included (I believe because our clinic uses a different lab, not too sure).

ToriAnn
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ToriAnn
3 years ago
Reply to  Amanda

Thank you for that information.

Local farmer
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Local farmer
3 years ago
Reply to  Amanda

Not allowed to leave the county?!? WTF!!!

Jennifer
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Jennifer
3 years ago

You need to get off your high horse no blame game just take care of yourself because your not helping I love hoopa we are stronger

I like stars
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I like stars
3 years ago
Reply to  Downriverlady

As usual, Downriverlady keeping things as classy as she knows how.

Sleepy Alligator
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Sleepy Alligator
3 years ago

Apparently giant squirrels have tiny brains!

Locals only
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Locals only
3 years ago

Time for the road blocks on highway 96 to keep outsiders off the Rez we have a lot of travelers coming to our county keep it locals only ban tourism humboldt county lives matter when restricted travel was lifted cases started to rise the smell LA ans (los angles people Bay Area Sacramento city slickers )started coming and the shit hit the fan.

Elmer Fudd
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Elmer Fudd
3 years ago
Reply to  Locals only

Just traveling through and not stopping at any businesses isn’t going to spread the virus…

Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
3 years ago

Covid-19 is being cruel to Native Americans.

//Complicating the risk is the fact that thus far, COVID-19 has proven particularly deadly for Native Americans. They have the highest rates of hospitalization from the virus of any racial group in the U.S., according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.//

https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/navajo-nation-fears-second-covid-19-wave/index.html

Guest
Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  Rod Gass

It isn’t that the virus is being cruel, it’s that the American health care system is being cruel, and has been cruel all along. The health care system discriminates, as does the political system that props it up. Multiple discriminatory systems work together to create conditions of vulnerability and risk, including racism.

The virus is wreaking havoc on Native communities, because their communities are already vulnerable, due to years upon years of being sidelined and disenfranchised, politically and economically. Have you been following what has been going on in the Navajo Nation? South Koreans and Sean Penn have been donating protective equipment, supplies, and medicine, because Mnuchin has been standing in the way of the federal relief funds that were allocated by Congress. East Coast Tribes have been getting their supplies and medicine from the Irish.

The Native people are fighting it harder than anyone, with the least amount of resources or support. They’re looking at NYC and Milan scenarios… and worse. Instead of working with them, politicians are busy sabotaging their efforts. When they tried to close the roads into Pine Ridge, South Dakota, they got sued by the stupid governor, who wanted nothing more than a public stand-off.

The filthy meat industry has been spreading disease all over the Dakotas. Not for American dinner tables. Lord knows every one and their mother’s in a food line these days. No. Just for export. Export and profit.

Guest
Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

After thinking about it, I realize I told it wrong… they weren’t trying to close the roads, they were trying to set up checkpoints. Guess who’s got checkpoints now?!

“NYC sets up quarantine checkpoints” — Reuters, August 5, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1bScupGF0

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Imagine what would happen if Nevada or Oregon decided to close public roads for their own protection. That means no supplies for California. Even if Blue Lake or McKinleyville did so Hoopa would be isolated. Besides which closing a road, if that does not mean just screening who can use it, closes off both coming and going so the people who do it better be totally self sustaining. It simply doesn’t work.

And it’s most rural places that are that are in a health care crunch.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

They didn’t want to close any roads, though.

They were trying to set up checkpoints.

Insider
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Insider
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

That’s not true the natives have been illegally receiving unemployment benefits 10,000 to be exact lieing saying they own their businesses when their only jobs were doing drugs and getting drunk plus they got a 1,000 from the tribe and another one coming on the 10 the the problem is some of the girls don’t know how to control their sexual activity’s and brought some guys from Oregon here and all for the party now look let’s keep shit real this isn’t about racism just because you want to make it that and more white and black people have died then native get a grip

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Insider

So… you’re calling Native people liars, thieves, and whores? And racism is a figment of my imagination?

You are [edit] ignorant.

Weitchpecker
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Weitchpecker
3 years ago
Reply to  Insider

Insider…. I’m not sure what you are inside of …[edit] Do you have evidence to prove people are illegally making unemployment claims?
Also the only racism I’ve heard come from any of the comments that I’ve read this far can be found in your stereo typing natives as drug users and drunks. So yea, let’s keep it real…. by real , I mean truth… by truth, I don’t mean your comment.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳They’ve also reported that California has been down sizing there statics on hospitalizations and deaths. ⚖👁🌍

I like stars
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I like stars
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Who is ‘they’re?

It seems like you just make things up.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

They, as in, the news. Just google, “California under-reporting covid.”

SARS-cov-2
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SARS-cov-2
3 years ago

they are finding cases 👏 .Apparently the hoopa valley tribe offers some community testing using rapid testing . It would make sense to have rapid testing availability widespread by now ………..

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2020/apr/23/hoopa-valley-tribe-receives-limited-supply-rapid-c/