Big Jump in Cases Today, Nine Positive Tests

Press release from Humboldt County COVID-19 – Joint Information Center:

Public Health Lab reportHumboldt County’s COVID-19 case count rose to 122, as nine additional cases were reported today. This marks the largest single-day increase in cases since April 2, when nine cases were also reported.

Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said, “While these new cases appear to primarily reflect contacts with previously reported cases, the only way to prevent wider spread is to focus on prevention measures,” adding that Public Health, the Emergency Operations Center and community partners have done an “excellent” job of building up the county’s response capacity.

Dr. Frankovich reiterated that personal responsibility will determine the county’s COVID-19 outcomes going forward. “We’ve expanded testing, established an alternate care site and trained teams of contact tracers. Now it’s up to each one of us to limit spread of this virus by following those safety measures like physical distancing and wearing facial coverings that we’ve all been following since the outbreak began,” she said.
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New confirmed COVID-19 cases: 9

  • Total confirmed cases: 122
  • Total recovered cases: 103
  • Total deaths: 4
  • Total hospitalizations: 14

Transmission information for all known cases

  • Contact to a Known Case: 69
  • Travel-Acquired: 26
  • Community Transmission: 23
  • Under Investigation: 4

Number of tests run since last report

  • Public Health Laboratory: 61
  • OptumServe public testing site: 64

Total tests run to date

  • Public Health Laboratory: 4,105
  • OptumServe public testing site: 4,178
  • Willow Creek public testing site: 42

Public Health Laboratory testing Information

  • Supply capacity: Approximately 1,900 tests
  • Testing capacity: 70 samples per day
  • Turnaround time: 24 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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Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳California Department of Health has said there’s been a state wide jump in cases of 7,149 since Tuesday that’s a big jump of what was 5,019 before. Total amount of cases in California are 190,222. A surge in cases are in Shasta and San Francisco who happen to be vacationing in Humboldt County at this time because of the openings. 🖖

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

It didn’t say they were connected to travel but to known cases whatever that means. Not that vacationers can’t spread it. As well as illegal drug suppliers, trimigants. But those are not likely to be much concerned with locals health or regulations anyway. Nor worried about hospital limitations.

furies
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furies
3 years ago

Hey

Where’s rover dude?

Captain Feather Sword
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Captain Feather Sword
3 years ago
Reply to  furies

He got COVID and will be out for two weeks.

Local farmer
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Local farmer
3 years ago

Trained teams of contact tracers…. hmmmm. I wonder what authorities these tracers have?

Connie Dobbs
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Connie Dobbs
3 years ago
Reply to  Local farmer

You may expect the same level of professionalism and discretion exercised by skip tracers and bill collectors.

ExLocal
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ExLocal
3 years ago
Reply to  Local farmer

These tracers don’t have authorities. I have a friend working as a contact tracer. It is phone calls “you may have been exposed” from what I understand and that’s about all.

Me
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Me
3 years ago

Have deaths increased ? If not then the mortality rate is even lower than before.

Connie Dobbs
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Connie Dobbs
3 years ago
Reply to  Me

It’s the % of positive tests that matters.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳People from Shasta and San Francisco have been coming here for over a month. Airbnb has been renting out to anyone that has the money. Been seeing plates from Utah, Nevada, Texas Arizona and even New York. They’ve been doing some of the construction work around Humboldt. 👁

Sheesh
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Sheesh
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

If by “construction” you mean cannabis industry then yes

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago

Part of a nationwide upswing in new cases. Sloppy reopenings? Social distancing blown off during the recent demonstrations? Either way it looks like we’ll be in this swamp for a while.

DaPisan
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DaPisan
3 years ago

Does anyone remember? It was a 15 day shutdown to bolster the healthcare infrastructure. That being done, 90 plus days later…reality. This virus (Chinese/ Wuhan), like any virus, is going to run it’s course. Live smart, live healthy, and live life to the fullest, it may be your last chance. Protect the vulnerable, and move on. There’s nothing we can do about it. Hiding didn’t and won’t work.

Bushytails
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Bushytails
3 years ago
Reply to  DaPisan

“Hiding didn’t and won’t work.” If by “hiding” you mean shutdowns and social distancing, it’s worked great. We’ve so far not just prevented overloaded hospitals, but have bought us time to find a drug that reduces the death rate by a full third, saving millions of lives. And it will keep working if people like you don’t try to fuck everyone else.

P*** W***lies
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P*** W***lies
3 years ago
Reply to  Bushytails

There are those who don’t have the luxury of a retirement check, pension, or a government job, with guaranteed income, some people actually have to deal with making a living. So many people think that safety is going to feed families and pay the rent, etc.

This isn’t just about protecting your comfort zone.

Let’s talk about the disgusting corporate bail outs, and the rest of the service economy eating shit.

When you have seen death in front of your eyes, so many times, it just becomes a part of the cycle of life.

My face, my lungs, my choice.

Scooter
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Scooter
3 years ago
Reply to  P*** W***lies

Unfortunately that’s not how it works. It “my face, my lungs, your choice” is how it works when you refuse to wear a mask and infect the people around you (me).

P*** W***lies
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P*** W***lies
3 years ago
Reply to  Scooter

What makes you do damn special…?

Compromised immune system, or existing conditions?

You’d be a better human if you knew how to take better care of yourself.

I’m more concerned about cancer and cardiovascular disease, and people who drive, and exercise in masks.

Of course I will respect a private businesses employees, I hate to say these masks aren’t effective for healthy people.

I’m healthy, you’d get healthier by knowing me.

B12, Zinc, vitamin D, iodine, selenium, CoQ10…Tons of powdered vitamin C.

How’s your blood panel?

JRB
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JRB
3 years ago
Reply to  P*** W***lies

How is your supply of masks? Don’t listen or watch the Trump fake news. Many people will not acknowledge that the Covid pandemic is real, until it hits close to home! It’s too painful to think about for them.

The true statistics of this pandemic are available if you choose to look them up! We are approaching 500,000 deaths worldwide!

Guess what has become the Number #1 killer??? That was as of Aprii 9th! Wake up deniers!

https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/covid-19/coronavirus-becomes-number-one-cause-death-day-us-surpassing-heart-disease-and-cancer

P*** W***lies
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P*** W***lies
3 years ago
Reply to  JRB

When you lose someone you love to cancer, and you are aware of risk management tools available for the rest of life’s problems, this thing can take care of as many people as it will.

Death is a non negotiable part of life.

Get your affairs and house in order, because everyday could be your last.

I’m still stocked up on masks since the epic fire in central Cal a few years back., thanks.

Who is checking the fact checkers. You seem so sure about that fake news, but have you dug deep to find out who funds those outfits?

Bill n melinda gates foundation, and the open society foundation.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsguardneocon-backed-fact-checker-plans-to-wage-war-on-independent-media/253687/

Tax exempt foundations are the problem here…

Connie Dobbs
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Connie Dobbs
3 years ago
Reply to  Scooter

True. It is all about you and how society must be reordered to keep you safe.

Chuck U
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Chuck U
3 years ago
Reply to  Bushytails

Wait 8 months, you won’t recognize what you are living in as being anything resembling the United States. The economic disaster from running a debt based society into a brick wall will make the deaths from COVID-19 look like chicken shit.

Chuck U
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Chuck U
3 years ago
Reply to  Chuck U

Nuff said

rollin
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rollin
3 years ago
Reply to  Chuck U

yup

punkybrewstersmind
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punkybrewstersmind
3 years ago
Reply to  DaPisan

Thats possibly the most ill-informed and dangerous sentiment I’ve ever heard. The mental gymnastics are impressive. You know, if you care so little for others, or just insist people arent dying from this Pandemic, you would be much happier in say, Florida. Just saying.

Reader
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Reader
3 years ago

You are the ill-informed one. Don’t you ever wonder why the people keep telling you one thing will happen then it never does?

Connie Dobbs
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Connie Dobbs
3 years ago
Reply to  Reader

It isn’t because the Government saved them?

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago

90,000 more to go and Humboldt will have herd immunity.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Imagine some deusche in the 1919 weeklies saying, ” in Philly, only 7 million more people to go”.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Well, what’s the objective? Flattening the curve was the plan. Mission accomplished. So, now what? A perpetual state of uncertainty and malaise?

P*** W***lies
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P*** W***lies
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Some people just can’t accept the fact that humans are complicated and trybal by nature.

The domesticated herd have always been expendable.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

In my opinion, it is a little early in the SARS-Cov2 pandemic to be nonchalant.

But, some, cough cough, were nonchalant in lockstep with, cough cough, certain others, from the get-go.

The numbers are still growing here, during summer, when you and others said it would slow, while also not acknowledging the successes of physical distancing, SIP orders, and closing of some businesses.

DaPisan
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DaPisan
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

It appears to already have herd mentality!!! Sheeple, or is it flock mentality, “The Sky Is Falling”.

MikeyC
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MikeyC
3 years ago
Reply to  DaPisan

LOL, I’m stealing that one.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeyC

Oh yeah, that was pure genius.
Trump university alumni.
Trybal… now that’s a first. Spellcheck is a pain sometimes but c’mon !!

Black Rifles Matter
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Black Rifles Matter
3 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

Lighten up man. Let us have our fun until November, then you get to have four years of it yourself.

Captain Courageous
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Captain Courageous
3 years ago

According to the Trumpster, 120,000 dead and dying citizens in under three months isn’t particularly worth acknowledging. He’s not sick, so you shouldn’t be either. let’s not talk about it. How bout’ them Yankee’s this season?

I’m expecting to see Trump show up with his undies on the outside of his pants and an American flag
fashioned into a cape. I can see it now in HD. That enormous orange face he cocks about like a guy impersonating a chicken. His golden mane glistening. Red tie flapping. Brain so obviously fried beyond all understanding. No doubt caused by decades of steady full-contact exposure to the toxic cocktail of now-banned chemicals found only in industrial grade hair sprays.

His degree of megalomaniacal excesses most definitely call for a costume, one fit for a raving lunatic.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago

Oh no, now you’ve done it. You’re comment is going to prompt the Whatabouters into epic mental gymnastics trying to compare Biden and the Clinton’s to Trump.

Captain Courageous
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Captain Courageous
3 years ago

Once again brother’s and sister’s, Monsanto and DuPont have a lot to answer for.

Things that make you go hmm...
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Things that make you go hmm...
3 years ago

But you can’t put a warning label on Round Up… Ssshhh…

Fedup
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Fedup
3 years ago

I’ve run out of Hydroxychloraphine & cant find more needles to shoot bleach with !

Lynn H
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Lynn H
3 years ago

Wear a bandana if you can’t stand a mask. I do sometimes, it’s not as hot and sweaty and easier to breath through. Or a face shield. Play martian.

If you don’t care about anyone besides yourself, think of it this way; not wearing something and infecting other people is going to lead to more restrictions and less people eating out or hiring you to do construction or whatever.

JRB
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JRB
3 years ago
Reply to  Lynn H

If you don’t like the idea and don’t want to wear a respirator mask, just think how you’ll respond and feel when you have to wear a straped on ventilator mask. Don’t be careless, protect yourself and others.
The infection rates are taking off !

sam
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sam
3 years ago

People can not behave themselves, shutdown everything and stay at home. Freese all business reopening that have not reopened already.