One New Case Today, May 29

Friday, 29 May 2020, 5:17 pm Kym Kemp 5 comments

Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:

One new case of COVID-19 was confirmed today, bringing to 99 the total number of Humboldt County residents who have tested positive for the virus.

The following information is based on the most recent data available for all confirmed cases:

Contact to a Known Case: 58

Travel-Acquired: 24

Community Transmission: 17

Under Investigation: 0

Positive cases by region:

Northern Humboldt: 18

Greater Humboldt Bay Area: 77

Southern Humboldt: 4

Males: 41%

Females: 59%

Mean age: 47

Age Range

0-19: 8

20-29: 13

30-39: 19

40-49: 17

50-59: 11

60-69: 21

70-79: 3

80+: 7

Estimated testing rates:

Humboldt County: 4,424 per 100,000 residents

California: 4,483 per 100,000 residents

United States: 4,749 per 100,000 residents

Estimated rate of confirmed cases:

Humboldt County: 73 per 100,000 residents

California: 261 per 100,000 residents

United States: 527 per 100,000 residents

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.—

The Humboldt County Emergency Operations Center will begin reporting the number of COVID-19 tests conducted at the OptumServe test site in Eureka six days a week. Commercial laboratory testing data, which is irregularly received, will be reported each Friday.

No matter the source, confirmed positive cases are reported to both state and county health officials.

COVID-19 test results are updated Monday through Saturday and posted at humboldtgov.org/COVIDTestResults.

New confirmed COVID-19 cases: 1

Total confirmed cases: 99

Total recovered cases: 73

Total deaths: 3

Total hospitalizations: 13

Transmission information for all known cases

Contact to a Known Case: 58

Travel-Acquired: 24

Community Transmission: 17

Under Investigation: 0

Number of tests run since last report

Public Health Laboratory: 38

OptumServe public testing site: 118

All other testing sources: 65

Total tests run to date

Public Health Laboratory: 2,935

OptumServe public testing site: 2,369

All other testing sources: 3,056

Public Health Laboratory testing Information

Supply capacity: Approximately 1,850 tests

Testing capacity: 65 samples per day

Turnaround time: 48 to 72 hours

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Jon Rappaport

3 years ago

I would like to know what you guys think about these (2) quotes from editors of prestigious medical journals regarding the veracity of many scientific papers.

here is a very serious statement the New England Journal of Medicine:

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” (Dr. Marcia Angell, NY Review of Books, January 15, 2009, “Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption)

And here is another one, from the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal, The Lancet, founded in 1823:

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness…”

“The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of ‘significance’ pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale…Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent…” (Dr. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief, The Lancet, in The Lancet, 11 April, 2015, Vol 385, “Offline: What is medicine’s 5 sigma?”)