Three New Cases Today July 23

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

Humboldt County’s count of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to 203, after three additional cases were reported today.

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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Obliviously
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Obliviously
3 years ago

3 new cases and 6 new recoveries.

Lone Ranger
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Lone Ranger
3 years ago

This is out of control, shut this county down , now!

Open Up
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Open Up
3 years ago
Reply to  Lone Ranger

Sarcastic I hope. 3 cases is nothing

researcher
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researcher
3 years ago

I’ve been researching where the mutant strain started, or where I think it started, and actually for sometime, but damn if I can find the file, so I’m winging it. Guy walks into a hospital……and no, it’s not a ‘guy walks into a bar’ joke, guy walks in with something and gets cured and leaves. It’s nothing related to covid. Its late Feb in Lombardy, Italy. Italy has only had two cases and they were three weeks before. A few days later the guy drops to the floor and they take him to the hospital and dies of complications a week or so later. I think related to clotting. In the meantime cases in the hospital explode, then the whole town, then all of Lombardy, lickidy split. The CFR in Italy shoots up to the 12% range. Then neighboring countries Spain and France explode with new cases and CFRs that are today hovering between 10% to 14%.

As far as anyone knows this guy incubated the mutant strain, but no body knows where it came from, who did he get it from, or was he just the person whos body made the conversion. Science is so cool.

Obliviously
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Obliviously
3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

I read something the other day that said this has mutated over 160 times.

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

Yeah, the interesting part of corona viruses in general is that they don’t seem to mutate as frequently as the influenza viruses do. They have a mechanism that checks the RNA duplicates and deletes most of the bad copies (i.e. mutations). It’s one way they were able to tell that most of the early west coast infection was from China while the seemingly more infectious east coast strain was from Italy. Now I suspect that most of the US infections are from the Italian strain.

It’s probably also why some of the epidemiology folks suspect we are well beyond the point of being able to control the outbreak and now it is just a holding battle until a vaccine hopefully arrives.

Screw Ur Vaccine
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Screw Ur Vaccine
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

Wrong, in nature it’s a holding pattern until herd immunity happens, screw your vaccine, nobody I know would take it!

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago

Umm, herd immunity can arise from widespread vaccination campaigns as with polio and measles. Most of the folks I know will get the COVID vaccine as soon as it becomes available.

Donald Smith
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3 years ago
Reply to  researcher

D614G, is the name of the Mutated Strain.
The latest numbers on the last 3 week’s should show this mutated Viruis not the Covid-19. Version.

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

Gonna provide some actual facts? Or else it seems like you and some others are participating in a big circle jerk. Viruses mutate. RNA viruses don’t have that mechanism that checks. You are thinking about DNA viruses. DNA viruses attack human metabolic systems and kill cells. RNA viruses attach to proteins and disrupt bodily functions. RNA viruses mutate much more than DNA viruses do because the do not contain DNA polymerase, the proofreading enzyme that keeps mutations minimal. So no, Cy Anse, coronaviruses do not have that, they have a protein coated capsule housing there RNA which makes it harder for our immune systems to detect. RNA virus you all are familiar with, influenza. DNA virus you are all familiar with, HIV.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5221455/#:~:text=We%20observed%20that%20DNA%20viruses,and%20localization%20within%20the%20cell.

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago

“Coronaviruses differ from flu viruses in another key way that reduces the number of mutations. They proofread their own genomes when they copy themselves, cutting out things that don’t seem right. “They maintain this ability to keep their genome pretty much intact,” says Vineet Menachery, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch. “The mutations that they incorporate are relatively rare.”

That’s what I was basing my comment on — from an NPR story back in late March. It is probably not as effective as in DNA viruses but according to the report it has lower mutation rates than influenza.

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

I bet it does. Have you ever thought to look at the mutation rate of influenza? It has half the mutation rate of the flu. The flu has a mutation rate about 300 times higher than other microbes.

https://www.medscape.com/answers/219557-3451/what-are-the-mutation-rates-of-influenza-a

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-mutation-rate.html

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/change.htm

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago

Influenza = flu. At least that’s the way I’ve commonly read it. Certainly it’s different than the stomach “flu” which is often attributable to norovirus. Unless you mean something else by the flu.

In my 1911 I trust
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In my 1911 I trust
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

Sorry typo. Meant covid 19. It has half the mutation rate of the flu. If your read the sources I provided they clear that up. So covid muatates about 150 times more than other microbes, half as much as the flu, still a ton of mutations.

Me
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Me
3 years ago

Oh are we going with numbered “ threat levels “ now?

That’s soooo 911 but with numbers instead of colors.

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago

I overheard some trumpers talking today about how the h1n1 virus killed more people than the corona, and ‘no one freaked out. This thing is a hoax.’ Point is- misinformation is rampant. The right wing Fox News people are getting a lot of bad info.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

Using the high end numbers the “trumpers” we’re not off by a whole lot:

“…CDC estimated that 151,700-575,400 people worldwide died from (H1N1)pdm09 virus infection during the first year the virus circulated.** Globally, 80 percent of (H1N1)pdm09 virus-related deaths were estimated to have occurred in people younger than 65 years of age. This differs greatly from typical seasonal influenza epidemics, during which about 70 percent to 90 percent of deaths are estimated to occur in people 65 years and older.”

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

It’s either true or it isn’t.

P*** W***lies
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P*** W***lies
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

Or maybe a little bit of both.

Angela Robinson
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Angela Robinson
3 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

From your own link:

“12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.”

Also in the United States:

The deaths for Covid are now well over 145,000.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
3 years ago

Worldwide estimates are the numbers that are close. I’m not arguing the numbers only presenting them.

On the high end numbers from the CDC worldwide deaths from h1n1 were 90% of the current sars-cov-2.

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

But you “presented” with an arguement for the “trumpers” being close to accurate.

And you’re inaccurate, by 5 months.

Even if you arbitrarily use the high end numbers, it was for the first “year”.

We have passed the high end numbers by far, with 5 more months.

It’s ridiculous.

The comment was accurate. The Trumpers are wrong, again. And misinformation is rampant.

Thanks for obfuscating the point, and not clearing up some of the Pro Trump propaganda bullshit we are all reading on these threads.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

They protect their own at the detriment of their own reputation.

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

I’m so glad you can see through the interwebs and see my motives.

Are you claiming that this statement is not accurate? And, if it is not accurate, what is accurate?

“On the high end numbers from the CDC worldwide deaths from h1n1 were 90% of the current sars-cov-2.”

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

I would say comparing 12 months of H1N1 deaths to 7 months of Covid deaths is “far off”.

Especially when you consider that H1N1 death estimates were revised after studies, and increased.

Do you think Covid will be different in that regard?

(Already we have had reports of undercounting them with Covid, perhaps you called it fear mongering)

Just saying, during H1N1 you likely would have had a similar position to Covid, undercutting the potential and real affects.

But in order to downplay Covid contemporarily, and defend some Trumpers for some reason, you’ll use the higher numbers of H1N1 to make your case.

This is just my opinion.

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

I gave the whole range of numbers… and the covid19 numbers are going to be subject to revision over the next year or 2…

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

We’ll need 14 million dead Americans to equate to the per capita 1918 swine flu lethality rate.

Too many people anyways planet is dying
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Too many people anyways planet is dying
3 years ago

14 million people would definitely help with homelessness, food scarcity, we have way too many people on this planet. This is natural selection, the overcrowded place will now cease to be overcrowded. Great news!

Swine
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Swine
3 years ago

Except the population literally has still been growing all year…

Time to Get back to life
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Time to Get back to life
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

Great news! We are three cases closer to herd immunity, do your best to catch the Covid 19 so we can all get through this bullshit and get back to life as human beings. Tall these BS rules and regulations are hurting our towns and communities!! Good Job! Lets reach herd immunity!! No Bill Gates Vaccine for me!

R David Franceschi
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R David Franceschi
3 years ago

203 down, 135,355 to go!!! And the winner is?

Time to Get back to life
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Time to Get back to life
3 years ago

Great news! We are three cases closer to herd immunity, do your best to catch the Covid 19 so we can all get through this bullshit and get back to life as human beings. All these BS rules and regulations are hurting our towns and communities!! Good Job! Lets reach herd immunity!! No Bill Gates Vaccine for me!

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago

Government education subsidies need to follow the student when parents are forced to charter or home school when public school districts and teachers refuse to reopen a school normally. There have been zero cases of student to teacher covid transmission worldwide. School closures arise from fear not science.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago

With Covid19 they are witnessing some people’s antibodies disappearing within a few months, especially with mild cases, which would blow your herd theory out of the water. Especially since you herd immunity pushers contend that most people hardly feel ill at all so let’s just all get Covid and get it over with.

Back to Life
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Back to Life
3 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

Exactly, lets get covid, get it over with and get back to living. We cant lockdown forever for a virus that has killed barely anyone locally. Lets get back to life 100%

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago
Reply to  Yeah,sure

Like I said before,
antibodies from vaccines will disappear in a few months too. Who is willing to get COVID vaccinated six times a year for life?

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago

Umm, herd immunity can arise from widespread vaccination campaigns as with polio and measles. Most of the folks I know will get the COVID vaccine as soon as it becomes available.

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago

“There have been zero cases of student to teacher covid transmission worldwide.”

I call “bullshit” on that statement — read about what happened in Israel when they opened schools up.

Trump and Devos’ idea that money should follow the student is just a way to funnel public money to private religious schools that they cannot fund at the moment in an appeal to the christian right.

I do find it ironic that Trump repeatedly blames schools for indoctrination of kids into the “liberal agenda” and then insists that they open up, presumably so they can indoctrinate more. Either that or he’s secretly trying to kill off all the liberal educators so they can be replaced with conservative religious indoctrination.

Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

Or maybe because Newsome spends around $120,000 per student/year?

What’s the scrape by the teacher’s unions?

Perspective
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Perspective
3 years ago

Maybe people should do some research as to the long lasting effects of Covid. Also, if you want it to spread to achieve “herd immunity”, then I really hope you are doing your part by going to a hot spot and catching the virus yourself, other wise pipe down, you’re being a hypocrite.

Hypocrites and parasites
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Hypocrites and parasites
3 years ago
Reply to  Perspective

I have been trying to catch
Coronavirus everywhere I go, just to get it over with in the convenience of summer… I guess I am a loser since I can not even catch the “deadliest virus in our lifetime”… so many people have caught it and had zero symptoms, they say “I kinda had a sore throat last week…..” too many old people and baby boomers, time to hand the world over to the next generation, these old geezers would rather have us lockdown than and destroy our lives than accept their inevitable fate; they are soon going to die; they believe in Jesus and heaven and all that crap but they are afraid of a virus and afraid to die, it is a signal that their belief in the all seeing eye of prudence is nothing but a Sunday Social game, anyone with a high level of intelligence knows there is no god. Just a bunch of brainwashed fools imho. If your so excited about heaven, then why are u afraid of Corona Virus and dying….. it makes no sense!!! Hypocrites and parasites

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago

Man up and take a vacation to Florida . Maybe you can find a Karen that’s infected to cough in your face. If you can’t afford the trip go hit one of the hot spots here in California. You’re not trying hard enough. Just think, in your noble quest you could end up in the hospital on a ventilator and die!!
We will thank you for taking one for the team.

Perspective
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Perspective
3 years ago

HA! I most certainly don’t subscribe to any religion or God. I don’t want to go bankrupt over a virus that I can put a little bit of effort into avoiding. I guess it’s like having sex with a stranger. I can take some precautions to avoid a lifetime of disease or I can be so “woke”, I don’t care what happens and let the cards fall as they be. Why does it hurt when I pee? If you can’t get out of Humboldt to a hot spot, you might very well be the “loser” you proclaim to be.

P*** W***lies
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P*** W***lies
3 years ago

It’s a just a matter of personal opinion.

The biology of belief is a powerful tool for those who want to believe the hype.

You my friend, ” don’t believe the hype “

mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
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mlr the giant squirrel in Eureka
3 years ago

We’ll need 14 million dead Americans to equate to the per capita 1918 swine flu lethality rate.

Cy Anse
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Cy Anse
3 years ago

Right, because we haven’t advanced in health care in 100 years.

You’re comparing different times that had drastically different populations and technology and saying we should have comparable statistics or else we shouldn’t bother taking this seriously.

But even then they knew wearing a mask was likely to help.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago
Reply to  Cy Anse

What do you expect from someone who’s name contains the person that lives for free in his brain, the person he’s stalked on the internet for over 4 years. His name is a signal that he can’t give it up the obsession.

Willie Bray
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3 years ago

🕯🌳 No don’t need to go to Florida to get infected just come to Fortuna if your truly serious about herd immunity I’ll get you infected. But I don’t think anyone of you truly have the balls to do it. I have to babysit the people that have to shelter in place. You know like run errands pick up perceptions,shop for them odd job that might take them out into the public. This why I know what’s going on. Today would have been the first day of the Olympics 14,000 athletes don’t get to compete because of this virus, this is sad. This is the first time in its history (besides WWII) that it’s been canceled. 👨‍🚒🇺🇸