Seven New Cases of COVID-19 Since Friday
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
Aug 10 dashSeven new cases of COVID-19 were recorded since Friday. Three previously reported cases tested at an outside laboratory were determined to be false positives and have been removed from the overall case count. This means that Humboldt County’s total number of residents confirmed to have contracted the virus has increased by four and now stands at 286.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said that the outside lab discovered a problem with an entire specimen run and did repeat testing on the specimens that had been reported out as positive. This repeat testing yielded negative results. Two of the three individuals requested an additional round of testing at our local Public Health Laboratory, which again affirmed the negative results.
“We are committed to reporting data accurately and want our community to have confidence that case counts are accurate and that if an error occurs anywhere in the process, it will be corrected,” Dr. Frankovich said.
Today’s alert level stands at three or level orange. Visit humboldtgov.org/dashboard to view the county’s Alert Level Assessment tool.
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Earlier Test Results:
- Three New Positive Cases in Humboldt County on July 30
- Humboldt Adds 100 Positive COVID Cases in July After Two New Confirmed on July 31
- Three New Cases Reported Since Friday
- Nine New Cases Today, August 4
- Ten New Cases of COVID-19 Reported Today, August 5
- 25 New Cases Reported in Humboldt County Today, August 6
- Two New Cases Reported Today; Public Health Lab Flooded Due to Plumbing Problem
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730000 in the world dead from COVID-19 in 10 months. 690000 in the world died from the flu in 2017 in 4 months, where was all the masks and panicking and media in 2017? What a joke this corona is . Numbers don’t lie but they sure do make liars stand out.
And there are “flu vaccines” to boot.
🕯🌳Have either one of you had it?
I’m curious. Where do you think the COVID-19 mortality numbers would be if we hadn’t done anything at all to reduce the spread and treated it like the seasonal influenza?
Let me run some simple numbers if we hadn’t done anything — So far worldwide there are about 20 million cases of COVID resulting in ~750,000 deaths. In a “normal” influenza year, roughly 1 billion people get the flu even with the flu vaccine. If 1 billion people get COVID-19 you could reasonably expect at least as many proportional deaths and probably many more because of the overwhelmed systems. So we’d have a ballpark of 37.5 million deaths due to COVID.
The take-home message? Yes we’ve only had ~160k COVID deaths in the US thus far but that’s after all the draconian things we did. If we had done nothing, or if we stop doing anything to reduce the rate of spread, that number would likely go up 10 fold in the US alone.
Your reasoning doesn’t seem like actual science, Sigh Ants. It is the extension of one actual data point using assumptions for justification. Is that the way science works?
I didn’t claim it was actual science, it’s a very crude model based on the current rate of mortality for COVID-19 vs. number of known COVID-19 cases and extrapolated to what has been reported as the average number of worldwide influenza cases. The truth is that we don’t have good enough data to definitively state pandemic outcomes. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do an apples-to-apples comparison. Lone Ranger was comparing mortality in a flu year where nothing beyond the vaccine is present to limit spread and we get a billion cases and ~650k deaths to the COVID-19 where we’ve done a lot to try and limit the spread and have only 20 million cases — 1/50th in a typical flu year but we already have more deaths (~750k).
In all likelihood, if we had 1 billion COVID-19 cases by now the health systems worldwide would’ve been overwhelmed (think Italy early in it’s outbreak) and people would’ve been stacked in the hallways dying for lack of access. Even with a miracle cure or vaccine, imagine trying to get it out with a billion cases. Hell, we can’t even keep up with testing supplies in the US with just 5 million cases.
Nice assumptions, seen many a financial wizards use the same type of assumptions with the stock market and usually end up broke.
As opposed to your assumptions that we’d only have 750k deaths worldwide if we’d done nothing? Because that’s kind of what your initial comment implied — that we ought to stop trying to control it because it’s only a little worse than a normal flu year mortality despite a 50-fold difference in case numbers.
You sound a little worked up, I find yoga helps and is a solo activity that is COVID-19 approved.
You sound like you just can’t handle losing an argument.
Face it, you got owned.
The numbers I posted are real facts. Mr. Ant posted assumptions, no need to ague with someone that is going to assume. Waste of time ,thought you’d be able to figure that out from my last post,apparently not lol.
The comparison is that the flu killed 690,000 people in 2017 in 4 months compared to corona that has killed 730,000 in 10 months. A vaccine is the absolute most effective method we have at controlling a virus, social distancing and masking is not. We didn’t “social distance” small pox out of existence, we vaccinated it out of existence.
We had more deaths from the flu in 2017, in a shorter period of time, than covid in 2020. We also have a far more effective means of control for the flu than covid. Also, Sigh Ants, your extrapolations are moot. One disease is not as contagious as the other. CFR and the overall deadliness of a disease are two different things. Case Fatality Rate is the amount of people who have contracted covid that actually die from it, the Death Rate is the amount of people in a population, healthy or not, who have died from the disease. The CFR for Ebola is much higher than Covid, the Death Rate for Ebola is much lower than Covid in 2020. More successful diseases tend to infect many more people yet kill relatively few, left unchecked they can result in the most deaths of all.
Comparing letting Covid run rampant without social distancing is similar to allowing a flu season without giving anyone a vaccine. Thats a morbid experiment and can’t ever be carried out, but my guess is that the flu would remind all of us why its still the gnarliest disease out there in the present time.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The 690,000 figure comes from estimated numbers from a mathematical model based on flu-associated hospitalizations. COVID-19 deaths are being tracked and coded and are actual reported deaths. If you were to use the same criteria for the flu as is being used for COVID-19 the reported deaths from flu would be much much smaller.
We extraordinary measures to dampen down COVID’s effects. We didn’t for flu. COVID is not believed to be seasonal and there is no vaccine. Without social distancing measures we can assume that COVID’s numbers would be much much higher than reported.
Keep assuming Kym. The 2017 flu numbers were LIKELY far greater than 700000, since no one cared to track it, thats why they have to estimate. But lets keep assuming, cause the facts don’t matter .
I’m assuming you didn’t look at the link…
Maybe read this one? https://www.contagionlive.com/news/why-comparing-flu-covid-19-severity-not-equivalent
or this? https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-deaths-vs-flu-deaths.html
This one? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/02/theres-more-accurate-way-compare-coronavirus-deaths-flu/?fbclid=IwAR1PDU-QYOsAoz3CY_TgKMgpZTl525pG27D_90UPGlGqX5zoB4gd6kvHgBk&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
In what way apples to oranges? Are you saying that social distancing is a better control of contagious diseases than a vaccine?
This way: “The 690,000 figure comes from estimated numbers from a mathematical model based on flu-associated hospitalizations. COVID-19 deaths are being tracked and coded and are actual reported deaths. ”
Look at just one of those links. https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-deaths-vs-flu-deaths.html
“The CDC does not know the exact number of people who become sick with or die from the flu each year in the U.S. Rather, this number is estimated based on data collected on flu hospitalizations through surveillance in 13 states.On the other hand, reported COVID-19 deaths are actual counts of people who died from COVID-19, not estimates. In other words, comparing estimates of flu deaths with raw counts of COVID-19 deaths is like comparing “apples to oranges,” the authors said.
So for the new study, the researchers looked at actual counts of flu deaths per week, and compared those with counts of COVID-19 deaths.
Based on data from death certificates, during the deadliest week of flu season over the last several years, the counted number of U.S. deaths due to flu ranged from 351 during the 2015 to 2016 flu season to 1,626 during the 2017 to 2018 flu season, the authors said. The average number of flu deaths during the week of peak flu mortality in recent seasons (from 2013 to 2020) was 752 deaths.
In contrast, for COVID-19, there were 15,455 deaths reported in the U.S. during the week ending April 21 (the highest weekly death toll during the pandemic so far) the authors said
That means that the number of COVID-19 deaths for the week ending April 21 was about 10- to 40-fold higher than the number of influenza deaths for the most lethal week of the past seven flu seasons. That peak COVID-19 weekly death count is about 20 times higher than the average weekly peak flu death count, the authors said.”
Wrong.
https://kymkemp.com/2020/08/10/staff-member-at-fortuna-nursing-home-tests-positive-for-covid-19/#comment-1150860
Speculation and fear based..
So what you are saying is, double the number of virus deaths in 2017 is ok with you?
And for every person who dies, 18 have permanent heart damage, 10 have neurological damage, 9 have brain damage….this is NOT the flu. And while I hope you don’t get infected with it, I won’t be crying at your bedside if you do. Or your mother, or your child.
Where did you come up with the 18x, 10x, 9x, etc.?
This data shows excess deaths and is admitted to be incomplete by the CDC .It still shows A disturbing trend.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Flu deaths are estimated, Until recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the annual mortality burden of influenza to be 250 000 to 500 000 all-cause deaths globally; however, a 2017 study indicated a substantially higher mortality burden, at 290 000-650 000 influenza-associated deaths from respiratory causes alone. There is no exact number associated with the 2017-2018 flu season. The CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2017–2018 season was high with an estimated 45 million people getting sick with influenza, 21 million people going to a health care provider, 810,000 hospitalizations, and 61,000 deaths from influenza.To say the deaths were 650,000, is a stretch. As the study merely stated the burden COULD be that high, not that it actually was that high. I think it’s fair to say we have exceeded that by quite a bit
We have barely exceeded it , but funniest part is ,in 2017 no one was the least bit concerned. That is my point.No media coverage, no panic.
Two new hospitalizations. Best wishes to them for a speedy and complete recovery.
Zero new deaths.
Thank you for noting that. I haven’t had a chance.
Kym, have I been blocked? My comments are not appearing.
They are right here.
Trump just got done saying that the 1918 flu pandemic likely ended World War 2, because of all the soldiers it killed.
I can hear McEnany spinning that now…
“What the President meant to say was was that it likely ended ‘A’ World War, ‘TOO’.”
Before I start on the main topic, what masks are effective, I’ve done a bit of research into masks for men with beards. The very most effective mask for beards is actually two masks. A cloth mask that goes from ear to ear and drops down enough to be tucked into a shirt, and a cup mask like the N95 on top of that to press it against the face. If only one is used the cloth mask is most important. Now on to all masks.
There has been a research project done on which masks are effective and which aren’t. This is important not only to make sure people are using masks that work, but also because it matters in the world of research. If a research project that is trying to find if masks work only looks at masks that are ineffective, or masks that are effective, it will skew the findings. This is an important article to read, especially when you check out the images at;
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/duke-university-face-mask-test-trnd/index.html
Here is what they found; (copied from the article)
The most effective mask was the fitted N95. Three-layer surgical masks and cotton masks, which many people have been making at home, also performed well.
Neck fleeces, also called gaiter masks and often used by runners, were the least effective. In fact, wearing a fleece mask resulted in a higher number of respiratory droplets because the material seemed to break down larger droplets into smaller particles that are more easily carried away with air. Folded bandanas and knitted masks also performed poorly and did not offer much protection.
“We were extremely surprised to find that the number of particles measured with the fleece actually exceeded the number of particles measured without wearing any mask,” Fischer said. “We want to emphasize that we really encourage people to wear masks, but we want them to wear masks that actually work.”
Neck fleece gaiters, the ones that are worse than wearing nothing at all are the kind worn by the sheriff’s department.
You know, the people that are tasked with enforcing mask rules, etc.
You would think they would already have provided N95 masks to their members, even before this study.
I mentioned this study at the end of the comments on Dr. Francovich’s last interview suggesting someone please inform Honsal and his department.
I wanted to call them right away as a precaution, but wasn’t sure what kind of a reception the information would receive. Like I must be totally nuts.
Something tells me they will keep sporting the gaiters and just chalk it up to fake news.
Would someone please take this info up the chain of command to Honsal and Dr Francovich, please.
Neck fleece gaiters, they are worse than wearing nothing at all.
According to Duke University.
All of which would be pertinent were we facing a terrible airborne disease. We are not, so all of this energy spent on proper masking is wasted.
Ah yes, the famous editorial “We”.
I believe it’s pertinent.
Either way, respectfully allowing for your opinion on the severity, only energy spent on improper masking might truly be wasted.
If you are wrong, improper masking might be doing more harm than good.
That is worse than wasted energy, that’s a step in the wrong direction.
The only way we are not facing a terrible airborne disease is if we turn our backs to it, or bury our heads in the sand. It’s surely out there, even if you can’t see it.
I say mask up and proceed with caution, not with abandon. If you get sick, you might have to be carried, and if I get sick I might have to be carried.
The last thing I want is to have to be carried, or being responsible for someone else having to be
carried.
How about you?
Duke University would know respiratory care, family has graduated there in that field. My family has been busy saving lives of people stricken with covid. How about you? What have you been doing?
Do you think that telling someone they aren’t as good as your family makes any kind of useful point?
These are the good ol’ days and people don’t even know it yet.
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1292966741115572225?s=20
“Cases are dropping almost too fast. Of course this is weekend effect. But within a week or so, we should be back to June levels of actual new cases (not the BS reported each day). Actual deaths will follow this curve, but reported deaths have a 50 k reserve from which to draw.”
https://theethicalskeptic.com/
Absolute load of bullshit! I am sick after a dentist appointment with zero protection for me as a patient. If you go to the county site they say 2 weeks wait to get the test with 6-10 working days turnaround for the results…that is a f*cking month!!! My doc, because of the history, symptoms and my wife now sick even though neither of us has left the ranch since my dentist appointment 12 days ago, she got me in to be tested today and they told me it will be 2 weeks turn around on results, WTF!!! Frankovich need to be fired! You can’t manage shit with turn around times like this! Absolutely horrendous bullshit! We have no county health! What has she been doing all this time? According to her presentation on 3/24 we are supposed to be on slow surge with a flattened curve peaking at 240 hospitalizations in December and they can’t handle the low numbers now? Absolute clown show! I have been self quarantined 12 days and now what? Another 14 days? BS!!!
I want to point out that about a month ago they had an outbreak in Bejing, THEY TESTED 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN 24 HOURS AND WERE DOING CONTACT TRACING IMMEDIATELY AND SHUT IT DOWN INSTANTLY! I just talked to my brother in Utah, he and his girl pulled right up to the testing site, were done in 10 minutes and had the test results on the phone in an hour. WTF is going on here???
Here’s the plan:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/archive/the-great-reset
Sacrafices must be made. Don’t worry, plebians will be chosen at random to insure the misery is spread with equity. Wash your hands, wear your mask and wait for your government stipend. We are all in this together.
Mastercard and Truststamp developing a COVID-19 vaccination identity
6 Jul 2020 – 12:00
Mastercard in partnership with GAVI West Africa are developing COVI-PASS, a health passport for persons who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The three organisations had previously partnered in providing children’s vaccination programmes in West Africa, where Truststamp’s evergreen hash technology was employed to uniquely identify children. According to a Mastercard release, the hash is a token ID which keeps details of children without revealing their personal details. Mintpress reports that the health passport is already being implemented in 15 African countries.
https://mastercardcontentexchange.com/perspectives/2020/signed-sealed-encrypted-this-digital-id-is-all-yours/
https://dig.watch/updates/mastercard-and-truststamp-developing-covid-19-vaccination-identity
Exactly right. And here it is in video form for those that like threats by oligarchs in hollywood trailer form.
https://youtu.be/8rAiTDQ-NVY
The world of contact tracing and immunity passports coming at us fast. Double-speak in full effect with phrases like “staying apart keeps us together” and “social-distancing”. The government simultaneously lies to us and tells us the truth seeming an awful lot like double-think to me. Nothing much left to do but sit like deer in the headlights. Fear is the mind-killer so we live with the walking dead.
For those who have eyes and wish to see.ears and wish to hear.
https://youtu.be/ZUXTzVj5-uE
Listen to christine lagarde, managing director of the IMF, as she rants on and on about the wonders of numerology. Notice that this speech was given january 15 2014 at the national press club luncheon. The relevant part of the speech begins very appropriately around the 7 minute mark. This is where she goes on and on about the wonders of magical number 7.
Note that she mentions many there are already familiar with such concepts of numerology, note that the world economic forum is set to meet again in january 2021 to discuss “the great reset” and this will be exactly 7 years after this speech.
Truth is stranger than fiction. You and i might not believe in this crap but isnt it interesting that the managing director of the IMF is so enthralled by such ancient religious ideas. The sun and the moon is relevant to the religion of mystery babylon and isnt it interesting that the press is in on it. Look at what event this is filmed at. Open your eyes. Open your minds. Or dont its only the liberty of future generations at stake, no pressure.
“Crazy. Conspiracy theorist. Tin foil hat. Stupid american” choose your slur it still doesnt change what these people are saying and doing.
Oh yes, they are way into it:
“Support of the United Nations
The Lucis Trust has Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) and World Goodwill is recognized by the Department of Public Information at the United Nations as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO). As such the Trust and World Goodwill are part of a community of many hundreds of NGOs that play an active role in the United Nations, particularly in spreading information about the UN and fostering support for UN programs. Since their inception Lucis Trust and World Goodwill have given their support through meditation, educational materials and seminars, by highlighting the importance of the UN’s goals and activities as they represent the voice of the peoples and nations of the world.
History
The Lucis Trust was established by Alice and Foster Bailey as a vehicle to foster recognition of the universal spiritual principles at the heart of all work to build right relations. The Trust was incorporated in the State of New Jersey, USA, on April 5, 1922. A separate limited company, Lucis Trust Ltd. was established as an educational charity and incorporated in the United Kingdom in 1935. And in 1951 Lucis Trust was established as a legal entity in Switzerland, with an office in Geneva.
A publishing company, initially named Lucifer Publishing Company, was established by Alice and Foster Bailey in the State of New Jersey, USA, in May 1922 to publish the book, Initiation Human and Solar. The ancient myth of Lucifer refers to the angel who brought light to the world, and it is assumed that the name was applied to the publishing company in honour of a journal, which had been edited for a number of years by theosophical founder, HP Blavatsky. It soon became clear to the Bailey’s that some Christian groups have traditionally mistakenly identified Lucifer with Satan, and for this reason the company’s name was changed in 1924 to Lucis Publishing Company.”
https://www.lucistrust.org/about_us/history
I’m so sick of this Bullshit!!! Knock yourselves out. Run and hide. I’m gonna live life to the fullest. And you sheeple and snowflakes are right, I don’t care about you. That’s your responsibility.
wtf!? Did everyone just eat the brown acid?
Since businesses require masks I have yet to go anywhere and see anyone without some type of a mask.
Still there is all this hysteria on this blog about wearing a mask by the fearful.
Even those that don’t agree masks work, most wear them to comfort others.
As to whats comes next, I’ve tried to show on several threads here that if you look at whats going on around the world it’s probably going to be famine.
Show me one country where IMF,UN and other global assistance has actually left a Country in better shape than before they “helped”. Usually they go in and rape the country of it’s resources in exchange for the “help”.
Ullr and Nevertrust have valid points.
Coronavirus California
Gov. Newsom says ‘no money in the piggy bank’ to fund Trump’s $400 weekly unemployment order
https://abc7.com/health/live-newsom-gives-covid-19-unemployment-update/6363972/
California is $85 billion in the hole and Newsom’s in a bind as he’s already spent federal funds previously allocated to the state
That’s why he’s held off distributing unemployment checks. That’s why he doesn’t want to open schools in the fall. That’s why he’s all for defunding the police, because California is in a bankrupt condition and can’t afford to make many of its required payments unless he convinces the legislators in Sacramento to immediately raise all taxes by exorbitant amounts (which the people can’t pay, since so many of them are unemployed and their businesses are shuttered).
CalPERS, the public employees’ retirement system, is on very shaky ground. California hasn’t filed an audit for over a year, which is contrary to what’s required under state law. Good luck finding a Sugar Daddy on Wall Street who is willing to fund California’s massive shortfall.
California’s public health director abruptly resigns amid coronavirus pandemic
https://abc7.com/coronavirus-california-dr-sonia-angell-ca-public-health-director-covid-19/6363376/
California’s Public Pension CIO Ben Meng Resigns
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/californias-public-pension-cio-ben-meng-resigns/
Why are so many resigning? Trouble ahead??
Joe Biden selects California Sen. Kamala Harris as running mate
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/joe-biden-selects-california-sen-kamala-harris-as-running-mate/?trk_msg=4SCV8JDS3TP430IMGSA6B69H94&trk_contact=9BJIFDA52N6DI17FT70JT5ABG8&trk_sid=JOAG90F649RUVTDSM3SNQ2MQCG&utm_email=C4DCF5A3246124E0748DA4E38A&g2i_eui=hWtcry%2b1OC7XmN4b3Uoq3Q%3d%3d&g2i_source=newsletter&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pressdemocrat.com%2farticle%2fnews%2fjoe-biden-selects-california-sen-kamala-harris-as-running-mate%2f&utm_campaign=pd_breaking