Five New Positive Covid Cases Confirmed; This Includes Another Staff Member at Alder Bay Confirmed
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
Humboldt County’s total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is now 77 as five additional positive cases were confirmed today.
Testing conducted by Humboldt County Public Health at Alder Bay Assisted Living found an additional staff person at the facility positive for the virus. That person is now isolating. Repeat testing of staff and residents will continue through the weekend. Of the other four cases, one was determined to be travel-related, and three cases remain under investigation.
Deputy Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Josh Ennis said recent case investigations highlight the need to social distance, minimize travel and avoid congregating in groups. Even if feeling well, a single person can clearly spread the virus to many others in group settings which, coupled with travel, is a multiplier of cases, he said.
“The virus is circulating in Humboldt County, so ask yourself whether it’s appropriate to travel, or bring groups of people together,” Ennis said, adding, “In light of businesses reopening, we all have more reason to act responsibly, and collectively contribute to avoiding a scenario of uncontrolled spread of the virus.”
Total new positive cases confirmed on May 16: 5
Daily COVID-19 case report for May 16
- Total number of confirmed cases: 77
- Total number of hospitalizations: 9
- Total number of recovered cases: 57
Transmission information for all known cases
- Contact to a Known Case: 36
- Travel-Acquired: 22
- Community Transmission: 13
- Under Investigation: 6
Total number of people tested by Public Health Laboratory: 2,391
*Total number of people tested by all other sources: 1,572
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, California Department of Public Health and commercial labs)*Numbers from the commercial labs are unavailable weekends. This number will be updated Monday.
After receiving additional supplies, the Public Health Laboratory currently has a capacity of approximately 1,600 tests and can process about 65 samples a day with an approximate turnaround time of 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].
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Earlier test results:
- No Positive COVID-19 Tests Today, April 30
- No New COVID-19 Cases in Humboldt on May 1
- No Additional Positive Cases of COVID-19 were confirmed today
- Zero New Positive COVID-19 Tests on May 4
- Another Day With No New Positive COVID 19 Tests
- One New COVID Case in Humboldt on May 6
- No Additional Positive Cases of COVID-19 Confirmed May 7
- No Additional Positive Cases Confirmed Today, May 8
- Two New Positive COVID-19 Tests in Humboldt on May 9
- Four New Positive Cases, Two Cases Now Associated With an Assisted Living Facility
- An Error Reported in Saturday and Monday’s Daily Test Results
- Three New Positive Cases on May 12; One More at Alder Bay Assisted Living
- Three More Positive COVID-19 Tests, Two More From Alder Bay
- One New Confirmed COVID Case on May 14; Another Alder Bay Staff Member Is Positive
- Four New Positive Cases: Two Are Residents at Alder Bay
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This about sums it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NEWlg-wAdE
Open everything up let’s just run it through like president Trump said if people are that scared then they can stay at home it’s not like everyone is staying at home anyway people are out running around everywhere I don’t really see where much had changed only thing that changed is there are stores that are closed but the ones that are still open people are going in and out of them every day thars no difference if you go in a grocery store or a casino or a dinner for dinner people are still out and about every day far as I’m concerned just open everything back up and let it run its course because that’s what it is going to do anyway only thing thar doing is prolonging the process
R-dog…… exactly.
Protest Local/state Tyranny!!! Friday, May 22nd, 12:00 noon. Humboldt County Courthouse, 5th street. Bring signs/flags. PASS IT ON!
Or, SAVE a life instead!
Sweden did it. And everybody liked to quote Sweden in everything prior to all this virus mess.
Yeah, lets open things up. Or, as Country Joe says, “Whoopee we’re all gonna die”
Please stay home & keep wearing masks and washing your hands and helping us all to avoid this deadly disease.
Less voters in November.
For how long Karen ? Two more months? 6 more months? Two more years? Don’t worry ms Pelosi is sending us “hero’s” more free money. Stay at home. Quite your job. Close you business. Get on unemployment. Go to food pantries. Collect free money and hide in fear Until the government says it’s ok to pull your head out of the sand. Great plan. This should be an option, not mandatory. God bless America.
Why dont you go out and HELP? No, its easier to whine about ‘tyranny’ and condemn your neighbors and the people out there stopping this virus, isnt it?
Businesses ARE opening up sparky! But you dont even care do you? As long as its a way to ‘slam the libs’ you dont care. Pathetic.
🕯🌳Its not about opening up its about testing. Alot of people are mild that’s why they don’t feel sick a want to open up and go back to work. Go get tested see were you stand on there scale. 🖖🐸🌍
Willy……….they are testing at max capacity. Did you get tested?
🕯🌳Once a month for the last three months. 🖖🌍🐸 If you feel like they won’t test you eat a chilli pepper about a half hour before you go in and it looks like you have the symptoms. 🚑🚑
Why any policy expecting the public to behave in a responsible way is doomed to failure…
With the increase in cases this past week, I don’t understand how Bear River Casino can be planning to re-open. I see nothing but more positive cases coming from that irresponsible move.
People who gamble don’t carry the virus I have not heard of one case coming out of a casino
You’re kidding, right? A virus recognises a gambler and refuses to infect them?
Gamblers and homeless people have high immunity’s. You know how people get sick? When they isolate themselves from others and live in sterile environments. Proven fact. Same reason I drink water out of streams once a week. Build up my immune system. All we are doing with this isolation and sterile environment is prolonging the inevitable of getting sick, really sick. Good luck out there.
🕯🌳Go get tested, the last case in Mendocino County was contacted from your county, maybe you. 🖖🌍🐸
I’m still suffering the now mild but still real consequences of a case of dysentery from 40 years ago; drank from the wrong stream (way too low down). Be brave but be careful folks.
You’ll stop repeatedly drinking out of a stream when, after getting deathly ill from it eventually, and then after recovering going upstream to find out what the problem was and finding a rotten old dead sheep like I did.
I don’t think that will prevent me from getting covid.
💯 we witnessed a informal graduation ceremony yesterday lead by the staff of the school. Out of 35 people there 1 had a mask on for half the time. They shared pizza and hugs. Running through the crowds looked fun if we weren’t in a pandemic.
Perspective of sheltering in a better place.
The local fire chief told me that Humboldt isn’t supposed to peak until Sept.
Mmmkay. Because the fire chief is a disease expert right??
The chart Dr. Frankovich released in the 4/21 video presentation showed the peak in December, that was her model. The county has made it impossible to research any of her past stuff so I can no longer find the chart and I am forced to go by memory. That memory is that in Dec. we will need something like 280 available hospital beds and that will correspond with hundreds of new infections per day. What is not accounted for is that we are going into a possible horrific fire season with major smoke impacts that will make us all in the high risk group needing hospitalization. Very short sighted if you ask me. We have wasted the last 3 months of clean air in dealing with this.
There you go Karen! Let’s all hide till sept! Than flu season starts again and we can hide for another 6 months. HIDE! Hide in fear!
(Death awaits around every corner if you leave your house)
You are constantly misrepresenting the facts. It’s not always about ‘you’. It’s also about protecting the people who are in greatest risk, and protecting healthcare workers. As a society, we are figuring it out. Be patient, and get some real news. Not from Rush Limbaugh.
Kym, is it possible to keep a chart with daily additions of positive tests? The information released by the county health department is general to the point of meaninglessness. What I recall from the last week is
Sat May 9 2 cases
Mon May 11. 4 cases
Tue Mat 12. 2 cases
Wed May 13. 2 cases
Thu May 14. 2 cases
Fri May 15. 1 case
Sat May 16. 5 cases
Clearly, the number of diagnosed COVID cases is going up. We’re seeing people getting bored and restless, and forgetting that casual, unprotected social activities are possibly going to kill you. The river beaches have been crowded, pullouts along the Avenue have been jammed with people parking and partying, our sheriff is disdaining to wear his own mask. Closures and restrictions are going unenforced. And the mounting number of diagnoses is getting lost in a bunch of meaningless statistics. Meaningful information is key to keeping people focused, and behaving safely and responsibly.
That’s why I link to the previous stories at the bottom you can easily check.
These are the corrected numbers
Sat May 9 2 cases
Mon May 11. 4 cases
Tue Mat 12. 3 cases
Wed May 13. 3 cases
Thu May 14. 1 cases
Fri May 15. 4 case
Sat May 16. 5 cases
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In 8 days, we’ve had 22 new cases.
You’re safety is nobody else’s responsibility, if you’re scared, stay home and let humanity go on like it always had, this pandemic is a hoax to prevent a Republican majority in November, mail in ballots will be the biggest voter fraud in history……..
From the hills,
thanks.
Thanks for being an idiot? WTF? BTW do you ever have a thought you don’t express?
We’ve been living under a massive fraud our whole lives.
Our ancestors would be amazed at far we have come, and ashamed at how much we’ve forgotten the sacrifices of the those shoulders we stand on.
Among dumb conspiracy theories, that one takes the cake.
I like cake
like trump said. the GOP will never win again if voters can vote by mail. history would conclude that it would be the right side that would be committing the fraud. so even with fraud the GOP will never win again. based on what I hear from Gen Zers, I don’t think there is much of a future for the GOP. there’s 90 million of them that are able to vote in November that weren’t able to vote in 2016.
Exactly fromthehills. This is for political gain, not salvation. We are the experiment! We will all be living under a socialist ruN government soon enough. Fuking sad what this great nation of freedom and the American Dream will look like once that happens.
U.S.S.A.
“Only through the illusion of fear will the vision of freedom be suppressed.” (Me)
Only 5 cases lol… Probably 5000 new today, Dr Frankenstein keeps hand feeding us her bs and we just lap it up. 🤐
I wonder how many people are “currently ” hospitalized. Have there been three at any one time since this started? Dr Frankovich just doesn’t think you should know that.
🕯🌳Someone gave a site yesterday that told how many were in the hospital. Pretty sure. 🐸🌍🖖Or in the last couple of days. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸And it isn’t no political plot. 👁👁👁📡🇺🇸 Its this trickle down effect that’s got everyone kind of pissed off, and that doctor not clearly stating alot of the facts.🖖🕯🕯
The site, mentioned in yesterday’s comments, gives a daily count of current hospitalizations, by county:
https://calmatters.org/health/coronavirus/2020/04/california-coronavirus-covid-patient-hospitalization-data-icu/
It shows as of May 15th at 10 AM, Humboldt had 5 people hospitalized (with 1 in the ICU), which was a 25% increase from the day before.
It would be informational to see the cases by age. Giving a “median age” is insultingly useless. Obviously, the AlderBay cases are older, but there could be exceptions even to that. No Hippa wld be violated by showing the age groups in 10 year increments.
If there are a high number of under 40 yr olds, that might help ppl be more aware& careful.
Some from Alder Bay are staff members, not elders. I too would like to see age groups.
Ever since the protesters started 2 weeks ago. And others took off their masks and demanded reopening. 22 new cases here. Coincidence? Hell, no. Arrest protesters if they arent wearing masks or standing in a group..Their convenience is not worth our health!!
When you get elected, Ice, you can ignore the constitution all you want.
You have no inherent authority over free people, only yourself.
There are plenty more people deserving arrests. And most of them work out of the larger DC area.
Destruction of the currency is part of the plan, act accordingly.
If people stay home indefinitely, the government will have to keep printing magic money to send benefits to everyone. Eventually enough magic money chasing fewer and few goods will erode confidence in the magic money that clearly will never regain its value and barter starts being the only way to get essential goods. Of course those on government benefits will keep getting magic money but never enough to keep up with needs. Staying home indefinitely is only exchanging one evil for another. And the new evil does not create any antibodies to end the illness.
So many fearful people. Fear spread by media and mostly unelected officials. Go Elon! Open everything up now. Suck it up folks.
Can’t you see , this virus is out there. If you want to go out without a mask and touch the grocery baskets without gloves GO AHEAD,, I had a pair of gloves on the other day waking around the store pushing a basket , by the time I got to my car , I looked at my gloves and they were black , can you imagine what the heck has been on your hands befor gloves? Some people wipe there butt befor pushing those baskets .Just a word from the wise ,,, befor you touch that basket , just think what did that person do befor you, WIPE , PICK THERE NOSE, and who knows what else.
You sound like a lot of fun to party with
That crap on your hands is why we live so long. We are constantly fighting infection and making our bodies stronger. I’m not a health professional, but I believe staph would kill us all if we wore gloves for an extended period of time in masse. I want to see a real study from a real virology professional that explains exactly wtf this covid is. However I would probably get a better idea of what covid really is from a stock broker.
And another thing lay off Dr.F , she’s doing the best she can. Stop the shit talk , because I know for a fact if that was your mother, daughter, friend you would be pissed off, with all the negative talk.All you pissed off goons just stop..
Make sure they don’t get in a vehicle and get on the highway, they will have a mich higher mortality rate. Get over yourself…….
36,000 deaths in the United States per year from vehicle accidents (2018 statistics) or 89,000 deaths in the United States from February to mid-May of 2020. Which is worse?
Also, I vote by mail because there is no polling place where I live. Are you proposing to disenfranchise me and and and my neighbors? There are a lot of conservatives out here in the hills.
No, driving doesn’t have a much higher mortality rate than COVID-19. It will take about two months from the beginning of the outbreak in this country for it to surpass the annual traffic death toll. And that’s with social distancing and much fewer people infected than driving. Know what you’re talking about before you start spouting nonsense.
Twice the annual traffic death toll in two months since the start of the outbreak.
Thank you, Guest, for your comment. I worked with Dr. Frankovich 25 years ago. Although we have not seen each other for years, I do consider her to be a friend.
Please, let’s try to be kind to each other.
I have family and friends working the front lines of this pandemic.
This is not the flu, and it will not go away magically. Mask up, wash your hands, physically distance and stay safe!
It will go away if you just let it run its course just like everything else on Earth the problem I’d that man kind is stepping in it way like everything else just leave it alone then it will do its thing and when it’s done it’s done
Studies are showing a strong correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and covid 19 mortality. So, get outside or take supplements if you can’t.
BTW those with darker skin have a harder producing vitamin D from UV exposure.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507121353.htm
🕯🌳Were’s are resident from Lake County because according to Mendocino County there last case was a contact from Lake County. Hmmmmmm. 🐸🌍🖖🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Remember those sailors on the aircraft carrier USNS Theodore Roosevelt? It is still docked in Guam, and several sailors who had the virus and then recovered are now testing positive for a second time.
This may be an indication that people don’t get antibodies and become immune to the virus once they have recovered from it.
If so, it puts the theory of “herd immunity” into question.
🕯🌳Thank you, since I’m considered a troll and try to give factual information and was thinking about putting that out yesterday I knew I’d only get shit on by the league of growers. No immunity. 🐸🌍🖖
Herd immunity is not dependent on absolute individual immunity. The other corona viruses that make up “the common cold” confer a general immunity that reduces future severity of infection and the liklihood of an infection.
Many of the “reinfected” reports may come from infections that never completely finished. If you read individual accounts, including one from Mendocino County, officials declare people “clear or recovered” on insufficient evidence and then declare them reinfected when they relapse. This is partly because of that ever present bureaucratic tendency to cover one’s ass rather than admit error.
Even vaccines only reduce severity of symptoms of the diseases they are said to prevent. As many as 15% of tetanus vaccinated people show signs of having had mild infections.
Unofficially we have already passed 100,000 US deaths.
And unofficially, April was much closer to October 1918s record of being the deadliest month in US history.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-deaths-italy-us-could-124300594.html
(Carried from Reuters)
Just to keep things in perspective: Remember that the population of the country is about 2 and a half times larger today than a century ago. So proportionately, in deaths per million, our current virus has a long way to go before it approaches the deadliness of that flu.
And yet, the Spanish flu did not change the way humans gathered and interacted in any long-term way. None of this BS about “new normals”–viruses are normal, they come, people die, they go, people keep dying. And being born at even higher rates than dying. Nothing novel about any of it, until 21st-century thought decided we know better than nature, and some of the people know a lot more than the rest of the people.
Laura,
There was lots of this “BS” in 1918.
They closed schools and churches, made people wear masks, and adapted to more isolated living, with quarantines in place.
And they would of kept at it had for a fourth wave had there been one.
Yes. We are a larger populace now, and April was still our 2nd deadliest month due to one cause.
City by city or county by county it was then. So far, that’s pretty much been the way this time; but the threat, or the promise, of tighter and longer-lasting control is what’s upsetting. The locus of control is getting broader, and the possibilities offered by cell phones and tracking apps, combined with the constant reminder of a concept of “new normal,” breed fear and resistance–and what is that “new normal”? A world where sickness is not allowed, or natural death is considered a crime, and everyone must drastically change their habits to a dependence upon technological gadgets in order to communicate, be a valid, registered person, and to be tracked and sanctioned? This is the thing that occurs to people when they hear things like “new normal”–as if something has changed in the natural world. It hasn’t. Something is changing in the way we are required to behave, consume, and participate, though, and it’s not something we all asked for.
Your language and attitude are too similar to slippery slopes that I’m too familiar with.
Good luck with yourself.
You’re funny! I’m not particularly a project… the world is a lot more interesting than i am. This is an exciting and important time we’re living in, and i think posterity will look at its significance not in terms of a virus–they’re a dime a dozen–but of the changes in society. That’s the project i’m more concerned about–keeping aware, and reminding others of– the bigger picture.
But thanks for the good personal wishes, anyway!
Daily USA pre-Covid death rate- 7,452 (Google it). 50,000@week, over 270 million/yr, again, Pre-Covid.
By your logic September 11 was no big deal.
Sure the heck wasn’t important to the 9/11 panel. Read the report. Our best friends in Saudi Arabia we’re all over 9/11
Actually, the Commission Report complained about being “underfunded”, to put it lightly.
Max Cleland, a Commission member said this amazing statement:
…I, as a member of the Commission, cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the Commission had full access.
This investigation is now compromised.
Furthermore, Bob Kerrey, another 9/11 Commissioner said,
There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version
The Commission Report itself said on page 262:
Most of the intelligence community recognized in the summer of 2001 that the number and severity of threat reports were unprecedented
Then on page 265:
the public was not warned
The Commission wanted to look further into the Saudi financing, but was cut short on time and money.
Indeed it was not the 9/11 Commissions choice to redact 28 pages related to Saudis.
And it was not the 9/11 Commissions choice to protect Ssudi Royalty from lawsuits by the family members of 9/11 victims.
For as much as the Commission was held back by domestic and foreign agents, it did ok.
Yes, Saudis were all over 9/11. (15 of 19 hijackers, plus financing and support)
And yes, Americans helped cover that story up.
It still makes me sick.
Here is Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton writing an opinion piece for the NY Times in 2008, called ” Stonewalled by the CIA”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/opinion/02kean.html
The CIA had a lot to protect beyond Saudi Arabia.
Most people stopped paying attention, but Richard Clarke made some astonishing comments in 2011 or so, regarding the CIA:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/354002/
2011 was the first time the public heard of Rich Blee, a CIA agent out of the Bin Laden unit.
In fact, going against most policies of the CIA, the CIA threatened a lawsuit against two independent researchers regarding the expose of Rich Blees name and the accusations levied against him.
Those 2 researchers released a book in 2018:
https://www.newsweek.com/cia-and-saudi-arabia-conspired-keep-911-details-secret-new-book-says-1091935?amp=1
All these years later, it’s still unclear why the CIA would keep such crucial details about Al-Qaeda movements from the FBI. Clarke and other insiders suspect that the spy agency had a deeply compartmented plan in the works to recruit Hazmi, Mihdhar and perhaps other Al-Qaeda operatives as double agents. If the FBI discovered they were in California, the theory goes, it would have demanded their arrest. When the CIA’s recruitment ploy fizzled, Tenet and company hid the details from Clarke lest they be accused of “malfeasance and misfeasance,” he said.
It’s all quite astounding as it’s a real Spy vs Spy story.
Amazing! Great read!! That should be in our history books when we read about 9/11. Just astonished me with your reply. I still hope one day someone comes forward with video of the Pentagon incident.
My eyes were opened wide when I started reading into the civil suits, they really went full throttle.
There is video of the Pentagon.
And eyewitnesses.
A large airliner flew into the Pentagon.
The idea that it was anything else is ludicrous and deliberate distractions.
Forget the Pentagon plane.
Stay focused on the Saudis.
Uhm, I think your math is gonzo.
It’s more like 2.5 to 2.7 million. A year. According to the CDC, the US census, etc.
Otherwise even those nearly 4 million births in a year would not keep up. It would be a lot less crowded, though.
For Sure,
Maybe you mean 2.7 million/yr? +-.8%.
270 million would be about 80%/yr. In the US.
Or well, at that rate, .8%, 100 years.
Off by 99 yrs.
4 out of 3 people have trouble with math😉.
Is it possible? That AFTER the mandated marginally effective masks that the virus is spreading? Maybe breathing in all that unhealthy air instead of clean Humboldt air is increasing the problem. Only the medical people could know,but would they tell us?
From a few limited observations I think MASK MANIA is spawning more than a few parties in the hills. Or maybe they’re cleaning weed?
NO DEATHS in Humboldt from economy killing ,job killing virus.
🕯🌳New York Times article says a 14 year old teenager woke up a felt like fire was coursing through his veins. Children are starting to get inflammation of the veins around their hearts. Its mutanting. Now’s the time to be scared. On a different note just heard thunder in Fortuna. 🌧🖖🌍🐸
For god’s sake, Willie, why is it the time to be scared? Never is the time to be scared.