49 Total Positive Tests: April 6 Results on COVID-19 Testing From the County of Humboldt

April 6 Public Health Lab reportPress release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:

Five Humboldt County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 for a total of 49 confirmed cases since the outbreak began.

Of those 49 people, 21 had contact with a known case, 15 were travelers and six contracted the virus through community transmission. The method of transmission for the remaining seven cases is under investigation.

Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said Public Health continues to investigate possible exposures to these confirmed cases through a process known as contact investigation. “Staff reach out directly to individuals with COVID-19 infection and identify at-risk close contacts. These contacts are then notified of exposure risk and instructed on quarantine procedures,” she said. “Contact investigation is only one of the public health tools used to slow the spread of this virus.”

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.

Notes on patient and demographic data

To protect the identity of people with COVID-19, their specific location of residence will not be disclosed. The Humboldt County Public Health Branch is legally responsible for protecting personal health information, including residence address, specific age, recent travel, the identities and locations of any contacts, the provider of medical treatment, the course of illness and any other information that might identify an individual with or exposed to the virus unless it serves the interests of public health to do so.

Although we understand it is of interest to residents, providing location and demographic information to the general public does nothing to slow the spread of illness. Humboldt County is experiencing untraceable person-to-person transmission, also known as “community spread,” and there is no place that can be considered safe. To reduce your chances of acquiring or spreading COVID-19, avoid travel, wash your hands, keep yourself and your environment clean, follow the shelter-in-place order, and do not leave home for any reason unless it is absolutely necessary to do so.

The following case information is provided daily Monday through Saturday:

  • New positive cases
  • Total positive cases to date
  • Total hospitalizations to date
  • Total Public Health Lab tests to date
  • Total commercial lab tests to date
  • Public Health Lab test capacity, total and daily, and estimated turnaround time
  • Transmission data
  • traveler-acquired
  • contact to known case
  • community transmission
  • under investigation

Additional information will be provided each Friday:

  • Regional data
  • currently measured by percentage in densely populated area
  • soon to be represented instead by region after minimum thresholds of positive cases per region have been reached
  • Gender
  • Mean age
  • Test rates and positive test rates relative to the State of California.

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APR6 Case Count (PDF)

Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:

Total new positive cases confirmed on April 6: 5

Daily COVID-19 case report for April 6

  • Total number of positive cases: 49
  • Total number of hospitalizations: 3

Total number of people tested by Public Health Laboratory: 582

Total number of people tested by all other sources: 511
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California Department of Public Health and commercial labs)

The Public Health Laboratory currently has a capacity of approximately 550 tests and can process about 50 samples a day with an approximate turnaround time of 48 to 72 hours.

COVID Test Results

 

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Obliviously
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Obliviously
3 years ago

3 hospitalizations now. That’s news.

b.
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b.
3 years ago

Testing may soon be more broadly available, as explained by governor Newsom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f4TrClOn00

Swine
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Swine
3 years ago
Reply to  b.

The more tests the more people will have it.. The usa while behind has tested more people than any countrh but the tests are faulty, not tested themselves, and made by numberous different agencies
Think for yourselves.

b.
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b.
3 years ago
Reply to  Swine

Specifically “serology tests;” who has already developed immunities? I’m not promoting nor am I questioning. Questioning or applauding without information is stupidity.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳The British Prime Minister just went into intensive care, he will probably die. He like “not my potus ” thought it was no more than a bad flu in January. 🕯🐎🖖

Doggo
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Doggo
3 years ago

Without testing many people will remain optimistic and continue to behave in ways that endanger us all.
STAY HOME
WASH YOUR HANDS
WEAR A MASK
STAY HOME
We NEED more testing

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago

A couple of articles recently read paint a picture that makes me wonder. One was from the Bay Area and one was from England. One said that eventually all of us would get the virus, the other 81% with no mitigations taken. If all we are doing is slowing this thing down so it takes longer to get to the rest of us, that doesn’t create much hope. And I have to disagree. I think we can shut this thing down. But the bottom line is that no one knows for sure what will happen, and protecting ourselves and others is still key to stopping full spread.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-updates-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-cases-15181468.php

Santa Clara County Public Health Director Dr. Sara Cody……….”Yes, probably at some point,” she said in response to a question about whether everyone will be infected. “What our shelter-in-place order does, though, is slow things down, so we spread the cases out over a long period of time, and so that we spread the number of people who are severely ill and require hospitalization over a long period of time as well.”

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/4/2/21197617/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-death-rate-transmission-risk-factors-lockdowns-social-distancing

With no mitigation, a statistical modeling report from the Imperial College of London found that 81 percent of the populations of both Great Britain and the US could be infected over the course of the pandemic.

Jeff Russell
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Jeff Russell
3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

Here’s a graphic on flattening the curve-it asserts that not only will the peak number of virus victims be reduced but the overall number of victims will also be reduced. Also the patient load will be easier to handle because it’s spread out. https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-flatten-the-curve.html Also china is beginning to relax restrictions-There were pictures of crowded streets today -most people still wearing facemasks. The article does go on to say that the same number of people do get infected with curve flattening, so it contradicts the graphic and then cites a case history where social distancing resulted in far fewer deaths in one city compared with another-This was the 1919 pandemic.