Five New Cases of COVID-19 Identified in Humboldt County on July 22

Humboldt Test Results by the NumbersPress release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:

Five additional cases of COVID-19 were reported today, bringing to 200 the total number of residents who have tested positive for the virus since the first local case was diagnosed February 20.

Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich called this an unfortunate but foreseeable milestone as case counts climb across the state and nation. “We were the first rural county in the nation to diagnose a case of COVID-19 at a time when there were very few cases seen nationally. We’ve now seen 200 local cases in just over five months while the country is reporting more than 3.9 million,” she said.

“We know that this virus is highly contagious, but the most important thing to know about it is that there are steps all of us can take to limit transmission and keep ourselves and our loved ones safe,” Dr. Frankovich said. “We can all commit to wearing a face covering and maintaining six feet of distance when interacting with those outside of our household, while also practicing thorough and regular handwashing and cleaning. Even five months after our first case, these measures continue to be our best strategy to prevent transmission of this virus.”

Today’s alert level stands at a two. Visit humboldtgov.org/dashboard to view the county’s Alert Level Assessment tool.

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.

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Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳From January till July 22 kept telling the people it was just going to go away. Then on July 22 after he had canceled his Covid Press he decided to restart them due to failing pole numbers. And now he’s telling people that things are going to get worse. If you don’t believe in the please believe in the numbers. This is not a lie a or joke. No one is trying to bullshit you. You can come back with your herd immunity, your past flu number death numbers but there nothing compared to what we are facing with this virus. Respect your fellow human beings. 🌍🖖

Swine
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Swine
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Avtually many other disease and viruses kill and have killed many other people than this “new” virus.. Maybe folks are juat u healthy and this is what hapoens to an unhealthy populationm and p.s. masks dont make you healthy

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

There’s nothing compared to this except the 1918 Spanish Flu. We’ll need 6000 dead in Humboldt before the corona is as lethal as the 1918.

Swine
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Swine
3 years ago

Actually like i saod there is plenty to compare it to.

really?
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really?
3 years ago
Reply to  Swine

So give us some examples.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Actually welcome back to the world of your ancestors where pestilence was known quite well along with famine and war. We are lucky that, while the human world population has more than almost quadrupled from the time of the Spanish flu which killed more than 50 million, the chances are good that this pandemic will be controlled well before the equivalent death rate of 200,000,000 is exceeded. We have had a good long time where science has buffered us from that old reality. So, as was said before it became unfashionable, those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. We took our relatively long period of luck as our due.

James dean
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James dean
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

You can fall back on we are rural, think about that. We’ve got better odds

👍
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👍
3 years ago
Reply to  James dean

What Guest and James Dean said 👆

furies
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furies
3 years ago
Reply to  James dean

Not if the hospitals are full~

R David Franceschi
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R David Franceschi
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Only 135,358 to go!!!

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago

We had two sets of heroin dealers up here from So. Cal that have been roaming around for who knows how long? And then set free to roam some more.

Also who knows how many more dealers not caught.

Before you read it ..realize I’m not complaining about race as many are American citizens that live across the border.

Now couple that story with this….and I can see how there are more positives.

The hospital, which has a 20-bed intensive-care unit, has been overwhelmed with ailing residents of the Imperial Valley, as well as Americans and U.S. green card holders fleeing overcrowded clinics and hospitals in Mexicali, a city of 1.1 million on the other side of the border.

To alleviate the pressure, hospitals in nearby San Diego and Riverside counties began accepting transfers in April. But the intensifying crisis prompted California last week to activate an extraordinary response, enlisting hospitals as far north as Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Sacramento to accept patients from this remote southeastern corner of the state.

Last week, a patient was being transferred from the hospital in El Centro every two to three hours, compared to 17 in an entire month before the Covid-19 pandemic, Ms. Cruz said on a recent morning as a helicopter prepared to airlift a patient and five ambulances dropped off patients near a trio of tents erected outside the hospital to triage new arrivals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/coronavirus-border-mexico-california-el-centro.html

also

Covid-infected Patients Are Fleeing Mexico for American Hospitals Jul 21

https://medium.com/the-right-side-of-history-of-national-security/covid-infected-patients-are-fleeing-mexico-for-american-hospitals-d79b4c653b5d

Paperboy
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Paperboy
3 years ago

Wake up and read this. In 2019 Tuberculosis killed 1.5 million people worldwide. TB is spread by human to human contact, air-borne particles expelled by ones mouth are ingested into the lungs just like covid19. Far more people have died from TB than covid19. Where is the SCARE, why hasn’t there been a lockdown world wide and the quarantine of every city and village and the mandatory wearing of mask? Why hasn’t the WHO, the CDC, spoken up with Dr. Fauchi proclaiming the world is coming to an end because of this TURBERCULOSIS PANDEMIC? We were told months ago that 2.2 million Americans would be dead FROM COVID19 by September 1. Tuberculosis doesn’t go after the elderly and weak like covid19 who have preexisting conditions which were going to kill them anyway. TB goes after the young and strong like my grandmother who was 32.

Why is it that a disease no worse than the flu unless your 75, overweight and have diabetes is considered the worlds worse pandemic and is cause to turn or Republic into a Socialist, Nazi empire dictating our every move or DON’T DARE YOU MOVE! Close your business, lockdown your city and state. Close all the schools and gathering places. Stay in your home, do not socialize, wear a mask, turn in your neighbors.

Your being played people by the biggest SCAM in American history.

The US Population is 330,000,000 and in 5 months the number of deaths was 130,000. The number of deaths as a percent of the population is 0.03939 %,

compared to the number of cancer cases diagnosed in 2019 (1,762.450) and 607,000 deaths.

This doesn’t seem far fetched because it is happening before our eyes.

A very well orchestrated plan, or a unimaginable set of events that just fell into place … with the United States front and center. You tell me!!

Scare people with a virus, force them to wear masks and place them in quarantine.

Count the number of dead every second of every day, in every News Headline. By the way, ninety-nine and eight-tenths of the people who get the virus, recover. About one to two tenths of one percent who get the virus, die. Most all of them have other medical problems. Did you catch that ? Less than 1/2 of a percent die.

Close businesses = 35,000,000+ instantly unemployed.

Remove entertainment and prohibit Recreation; Closing parks, gyms, bars, restaurants, sports.

No dating. No touching. Isolate people. Dehumanize them.

Close Temples and Churches, prohibit worship. Create a vacuum and let depression, anxiety, hopelessness and desperation set in.

Then… ignite hatred and civil unrest, creating Civil War.

Empty the prisons because of the virus and fill the streets with criminals.

Send in Antifa to vandalize property, as if they are freedom fighters. Undermine the law, Riot, Loot and Attack all Law Enforcement, but tell government to order a stand-down.

Then… Defund Law Enforcement and abolish Police. We are all being played by those who want to destroy America! This is how you destroy a Nation from within, and in very short order. Will it work, I guess that depends on you and me.

Paper boy delivers IN 2020…….Thank you.

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

Thank you paper boy.

Not many people are capable of reading and writing your paper, because this covid thing is so damn….

Invigorating.

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

Or not.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Paperboy

Hot Coffee, I think you need to take a NAP…Wear your Mask…

shame on you
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shame on you
3 years ago
Reply to  Paperboy

if you want to make spyrius comparisons to tuberculosis you should at least be honest and include the fact that only around 500 people per year in the US die from tuberculosis.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳Part B. How many commenters on this blog know that we have an embassy in Wuhanna China? Staffed with 600 people and 200 of them are scientists and 100 of them worked at that viral lab for two years in Wuhanna? Hmmmmmm? Interesting?👁🇺🇸

Obliviously
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Obliviously
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Do you have a link for that Willie?

HotCoffee
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HotCoffee
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

And they are sitting right below the 3 gorges dam that is threatening to break.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Willie Bray

Most right wing conspiracy believers knew that. But you need to examine who those scienyprist were and what the embassy was trying to do. “Yet the coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab so alarmed American science diplomats that they requested the United States provide further support beyond the assistance that the lab was getting from UTMB. In another cable, diplomats noted “the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.”
As part of a team at UTMB that helped train staff from the Wuhan lab, Le Duc was hesitant to ascribe blame or speculate on any specific cause of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. He did, however, acknowledge China’s relative lack of experience in establishing high-security biocontainment labs.” https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/UTMB-scientist-acknowledges-safety-risks-at-15221936.php

Paperboy
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Paperboy
3 years ago

JUST SENT TO the big daddy’s up stairs………………..local paperboy…..so hum

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago

200 cases, one person currently in the hospital. What a pandemic, is this virus ever going to take off? How long we got to wait? My ass starting to get sore ,got to get a new recliner.

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago

Just guess work, but if I had to bet on what is going to happen over the next month, I believe we are going to start seeing new cases reduced to the level of the initial wave. One, then none, then one, then three days with none etc etc. A serious slowdown. No real science to back that up, just a feeling. After that I wouldn’t want to bet as there will be way too many parameters at play.

From what I’ve read recently, and from Fauci interviews, the odds of it disappearing are pretty much zero. It’s an active virus, novel, and now in every nook and cranny of the world. So zips bout it. Everything else is on the table, from it turning on itself making itself less infectious and causing it to peter out – to a recombined monster mutant strain that eats us alive. The fact that we are dealing with two novel coronavirus strains working the same turf at the same time makes the number of scenarios unlimited.

There are simplistic takeaways. It’s a serious illness that is growing in ever greater numbers with a rising curve that only slowed down a taste and only because of the lockdown.

But there are no simple solutions. Right now we’re in a wait and see flight pattern. If my prediction is correct of a serious slowdown by the end of the month, there is no doubt that we will have reopened fully by then, and maybe we should. One part of me agrees with letting things run there natural course if the other alternative is economic and social destruction.

The only solutions we know that work are distancing, masks and hand washing. It’s not hard to do and we wouldn’t lockdown.

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

You have been wrong every time with your speculation. You are just as bad as fauci or any other health nut whose doom and gloom doesn’t pan out. If it were a “monster mutant virus” it would’ve petered out already. This is our third go around with coronavirus in the last 20 years. SARS 1 and MERS were both monster mutant versions of the coronavirus and they both petered out, why? Because they actually killed their hosts, no matter what their age, and there were no extremely mild cases being labeled “asymptomatic” because everyone who caught those viruses got really sick. SARS1 had a 10% death rate of ANYBODY it infected, and MERS had a 34% death rate of ANYONE it infected. It was contained because people became sick, there was no maybe or “asymptomatic” crap, and they killed many of their hosts rapidly, so it burned out. You will have a hard time convincing anybody that this is a monster virus when the majority of people it infects doesn’t get that sick, hence why it is still circulating, and why it is hard to contain.

You provide little links, your speculate a lot, your projections have been about as accurate as our health “experts” and you don’t seem to be worthy of the handle you have given yourself. My prediction is people like you will continue to moan and groan and wring their hands over a virus that is proven to only be deadly if you are old or unhealthy and blame people who want to open the economy for this. While on the other hand, people like me want to open the economy to prevent economic and social suicide and realize that everyone is going to catch it eventually no matter what and if you die from it, its your own fault for not taking care of yourself so that you are strong and healthy. You take care of yourself when you are young so that when you are old you are healthy and hopefully don’t have as many medical conditions as other old people, if any at all. Remember, “my body, my choice?” Well you can choose to be healthy and survive, or you can choose to be unhealthy and risk dying, its your own responsibility, not mine. There are a lot of illnesses out there that will kill you besides covid if you are in crap health.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago

There is no disputing that wearing a masks and social distancing will help slow the spread, it will. Gee. I just wish someone would of thought of it so we could stop the flu.

Swine
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Swine
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

We cant stop viruses.. Nature is smarter than mask brained humans..m amd the cases keep rising and everyones wearing masks… Hmmm….. Fucking fucktards everywhere.

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

The Billionaire Boys Fight Club

really?
Guest
really?
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

They did. In the rare events that we have a flu as deadly as this virus, we used social distancing and wore masks in public.

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago

Astounding that someone could be this out of touch. I guess no one told him about the South and West US. I laughed in April when trump said this, but this level of stupidity this late in the game is truly sad. Below is an excerpt from https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-22-20-intl/index.html

(on edit; not only was it a new record, its the highest daily increase since the outbreak began.)

Brazil’s interim health minister said Wednesday the coronavirus situation seems “under control,” despite the country reporting a record number of new cases Wednesday. In a press conference before the country’s official daily Covid-19 numbers were released, interim Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said, “The scenario seems to me to be under control,” but recognized there are still “increasing cases” and claimed the increase was because of the weather.

“It is partly due to winter, of the social change in winter, and this causes the contamination to increase,” he said.

There has previously been speculation that warmer weather would lessen the spread, specifically from US President Donald Trump early in the pandemic. However, health experts have said warmer weather is unlikely to stop the spread of Covid-19.

“Climate only would become an important seasonal factor in controlling COVID-19 once a large proportion of people within a given community are immune or resistant to infection,” Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health…

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
3 years ago

The death rate is falling all around the world while infections are increasing. Since you like to speculate so much researcher, what about the fact that the virus is becoming less deadly yet more infectious? Gee, it almost seems like it is doing what ALL OTHER VIRUSES IN HISTORY HAVE EVER DONE, which is become more effective. More effective=more contagious, less deadly. A deadly virus is not an effective virus, it will burn itself out before it can become firmly entrenched in the host population. All viruses want to pass on their RNA/DNA, if they kill the host before that happens, the virus did not accomplish its goal: reproduction. So please, spare us the crap and quit looking at covid stats as some fly by night “expert,” and just do some research on basic virology, biology, and physiology before you start spewing.

Little Claire Voyance
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Little Claire Voyance
3 years ago

As infections multiply more and more rapidly, the statistical death rate will fall, due to the three weeks or so between infection and possible death.
After the infection rate stabilizes or plateaus for that three weeks or so, the true death rate can be redetermined.

It may very well be statistically less fatal than originally determined due to people less sick being tested.

Remember, at the outset, only people with significant symptoms and the required travel history or association we’re allowed to be tested.
Now, more are being tested, and it’s more of a screening of many, than a confirmation of the very ill.

It is encouraging that maybe the virus is mutating into something less virulent, but that is tempered by the. But, however many dying expressed as a lesser per cent per capita due to a greater number of infections is of little comfort, especially given the potential of reinfection.

It also may simply”reemerge” from it’s original sources when it starts to slow down. Who knows where that truly was?

That there were two different strains of the virus to begin with lends less credence to it’s origin of escape being a single animal source, and more credence to the origin of escapes being multiple accidental and /or intentional releases from a lab or labs at unknown locations, possibly even including America.

Having 6 times the cases and deaths per capital than the rest of the world suggests it has been in America longer than anywhere else.
Unless it is determined exactly where these viruses originated, what is to stop it from happening again and again?
I think the last thing that will happen is for the virus to be allowed to expend itself due to mutation before a vaccine is available and distributed like what happened to h1n1, if it is truly intentional.
Maybe a part of the design(s).

Continued accidental and/ or intentional escape would explain the significant second wave in America not being seen in other parts of the world.

As far as a virus having a mind of it’s own, and it “wanting” or choosing to become less deadly but more contagious in order to live long and prosper, I find that a bit of a reach. Simply coincidental.
If it’s having a bad day tomorrow will it change it’s mind and decide to become more deadly out of spite?
And how, exactly, pray tell, does it determine just how many potential hosts are available to it? A sixth census?
And in response to the reproduction as a viruses goal, that is nothing but a theory, but may be true due to the fact that the virus really started multiplying most rapidly on the summer solstice. It is clearly a pagan virus and the second wave is due to the virus’s strict adherance to the observation and celebration of their highest of high holidays.
“The Corona Orgy.” It went viral.
All the masks came in handy.

Seriously, it seems more likely the goal behind the virus is the prevention of reproduction of the host and will be a likely side effect of the disease and the vaccine, not to mention the economic fallout.

I guess the Ebola Virus missed that reproduction memo, is it also becoming less deadly in order to flourish?
I don’t think so.

The only entity I am aware of that is capable and willing to alter a virus for improved longevity or lethality is man, and is the likely culprit in this case.

The virus “being behind the wheel” so to speak, seems laughable at best.
That viruses mutate is a given.
That they are opportunists is understood.
That they have natural defenses, I accept.
However;
That they consider their progeny and look out for them is a real stretch of the imagination.
That a virus is a prescient entity or in other words can anticipate an outcome and adjust accordingly beforehand is not a reality.

You all better hope I’m right, because if I’m not, The Virus already knows a vaccine is coming, and has already pre- prepared a defense for it, so a vaccine will never work.
And it was hip to the mask thing, the hand washing, even the social distancing, even before we were, and developed workarounds in advance.

Maybe I am wrong, it’s not like the flu vaccine ever really worked. Or one ever existed for the common cold. Those darn viruses are always one step ahead.
Seriously;
Maybe all the Mad Mengela type scientists and their cronies have finally developed the ultimate leverage tool in order to make money hand over fist from multiple directions all at once and have us all off balance and confused that this is somehow all perfectly natural and that we are not all just pawns in their sick, sick, power play.

The love of money being the root of evil would explain alot.

That absolute power corrupts absolutely may explain the rest.

To suggest we return to doing things as if nothing ever happened is insanity.

In my 1911 I trust
Guest
In my 1911 I trust
3 years ago

[edit] Everything you put down is pure speculation. If you look at how this thing called natural selection works, which I believe is the foundation of all biological science, you know how things come to be and how things come to pass, that sort of thing, you will find that as a rule of thumb, viral mutations that are deadly enough to kill their host before they pass on their RNA, well, fail to pass on their RNA. That means that mutation has effectively “naturally selected” itself out of the gene pool. Viruses that don’t kill their host end up being “naturally selected” to pass on their genetic material. Eventually there will be much more of the more virulent yet less deadly viral strains circulating than the more deadly and less virulent strains. Also a big part of viral mutation is recombinant RNA/DNA. If two strains infect the same cell, they can swap characteristics to become more effective. Happens with Influenza A and B all the time. Eventually the more deadly strain will become diluted by the less deadly strain and disappear. Look up the 1918 Spanish Flu ya’ll are so fond of, thats pretty much what happened to it.

On another note, I am glad you brought up Ebola, as I have brought that particular virus up multiple times. I am very interested in it, and yes, it turns out in fact that it is becoming less deadly to flourish. The Zaire strain of Ebola (most deadly) had a 88% fatality rate when it was first discovered in 1976. We started really tracking outbreaks by the early 2000s, and even though we didn’t have any better way of treating the virus, or really understand it yet, the fatality rate had fallen drastically. 2003 was the last year with an outbreak of over 100 people that had a 90% fatality rate, by the next outbreak of the Zaire strain (over 100 people) in 2007, it had a 71% fatality rate. By the 2014-2016 outbreak, the largest one yet, in which it somehow managed to infect 3811 people in Guinea, 10675 people in Liberia, and 14124 people in Sierra Leone, its death rate fell to 67%, 45%, and 28% respectively. This perfectly illustrates the increased virulency and decreased death rate that I have been talking about. Ebola wasn’t capable of a large outbreak until it became less deadly, then it exploded. And all those numbers are from the Zaire strain, so it is consistent. The current outbreak today sees a death rate of 50% from the Zaire strain, compared with 2003 where it had a 90% death rate.

So yeah, obviously Ebola did get the memo and follows the same general rule as all other viruses. Increase in virulence, decrease in death, leads to much more success. Here is 44 years of data that backs up exactly what I’ve been saying.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ebola-virus-disease

Paperboy
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Paperboy
3 years ago

[Edit: You already posted this. Once a month seem sufficient for such a long post. This is your third post of the same thing in 24 hours. I’ll ban you as a bot if you repeat.]

Swine
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Swine
3 years ago
Reply to  Paperboy

Why dont you want people to read a out t.b. and how deadly it is and has been? Maybe you could do a report on it.. That would be some aweaome journalist stuff..