Staff Member at Fortuna Nursing Home Tests Positive for COVID-19
Stock photo of COVID-19 testing in the Humboldt County Public Health Laboratory. [IPhoto from the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services]
The California Department of Public Health requires nursing homes in the state to make daily reports on the number of patients and staff who have tested positive for COVID-19. The information provided is available on their website.
Rockport Healthcare manages the four local operations of Brius Healthcare, LLC, including Fortuna Rehabilitation and Wellness Center where the staff member works. Last year, the Fortuna operation was identified as being one of 37 flagged by the California Department of Public Health for “having a history of serious quality issues.” Facilities identified as Special Focus Facilities are inspected more frequently and are given assistance to correct their deficiencies.
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Did Fortuna High end up having the kids at school today?
Mama… yup
I thought 57 of 63 teachers were going to refuse to work (quit) today?
First time you’re wrong about stuff or does it happen a bunch?
🕯🌳7 new cases and two new in the HOSPITAL. 🚑🚑🛐
🕯🌳Are you high just me. RHBB had an article that said that they voted going to start distancing schooling on August 31, then reevaluated it in October. 👁👁
The distance learning article is about Southern Humboldt Unified Willie.
🕯🌳They weren’t in Fortuna schools, I went by.
This article is about Fortuna. RHBB reported distance learning and reevaluation for SoHum. Different boards, different decisions.
They were all masked up like good little kids. Can’t believe we let them go to school in 2017 without masks, when the flu killed as many people in half the time.
That’s just not true. CDC says there was roughly 61,000 fatalities in the US during 2017/18 flu year. But we’ve already had over 163,000 so far in the 6 months since the first recorded death in the US. And we locked down.
And most importantly the CDC’s numbers for flu deaths are estimates but the deaths for COVID-19 are actual.
Here’s another way of gauging the deaths. “According to the CDC there were 28,200 excess deaths over the course of the 2017-2018 flu season, and since late March of this year there have been an estimated 191,011. That’s almost seven times more and, again, the coronavirus isn’t done yet. Saying it’s roughly 10 times deadlier than the seasonal flu does not seem to be a great exaggeration. It may prove to be an understatement.” https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/06/justin-fox-the-not-so-great-covid-19-versus-flu-comparison/
We’re still in the pandemic so making clear comparisons are difficult but, it is clear that your statement that the flu killed as many in half the time is incorrect.
Thank you Kym for calling out misinformation!
Yes thank you! People are entitled to their opinions but we need to call it out. It could save lives !
It’s not “misinformation.” Excess deaths are a relative thing- a comparison deaths from causes that exclude the one referred to. In other words the excess death rates from covid-19 are those over the usual ones in a certain period- including the flu- and when the disease is not seasonal, the comparison of a seasonal disease like the flu is even more difficult. And when it’s done in the beginning stages of a pandemic, even harder to evaluate. For example if in in the 2017 flu season that ran from November 2017 through March (?) 2018, 61000 people died from it, that would average deaths of 12000 per month. But it comes pretty much each year at lesser and greater death rates. While so far covid-19 has killed about 160,000 from March through July 2020 or about 32000 per month or somewhat less than three times the death rate of flu for 2017. Certainly not 10 times the rate. It’s early inning with covid-19.
Right now the future course of this pandemic is unknown. It may taper off, becoming relatively rare while the flu marches on each year killing many more when all years are added together. Or covid-19 may become the tuberculosis of our age, responsible for great ravages for a long time. But we do know that early death rates from the flu were much worse that the early ones so far from covid-19. But we developed vaccines and some herd resistance so that, while flu is still with us, it is not as catastrophic as flu was in 1918. Covid-19 may be the same and it’s worth thinking of that it might very well become a ‘lesser flu’ when all is said and done. No one knows and shouldn’t be so arrogant as to berate others for thinking differently. Serious yes but no sense in swinging weapons about wildly, ending by shooting oneself more than the enemy
Anyway it’s still possible that the “lockdown” might create more devastion than the disease itself did. And that being less aggressive might be just as useful in terms of deaths without the corollary disruption of putting many more people out of work than the virus would without the erratically actions of government.
Thinking different and making up “facts” are two different concepts.
Lone Ranger is making shit up and misinforming by all accounts, including your timeline correction for him (not 13 weeks).
What were world numbers ? 690000 deaths from the FLU in the typical 13 week flu season of 2017. Sorry this is true.
Source?
It is pretty much everywhere on the net. https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2017/flu/en/
No, not really.
This link does not say what year the estimate pertains too, because it is not for a particular “season”.
Lone Ranger thinks this is for 2017, clearly it is not.
Lone Ranger also keeps saying a 13 week flu season, but we ALL KNOW the flu season is much longer.
October to March is the flu season in the Northern Hemisphere.
That’s 6 months, not 13 weeks.
Another thing: it’s an estimate for all of the world. And Lone Ranger is cherry picking the high number. Of course the low end of the estimate in the link is 290,000:
The new figures of 290 000-650 000 deaths are based on more recent data from a larger, more diverse group of countries, including lower middle-income countries, and exclude deaths from non-respiratory diseases.
As WE ALL KNOW during a pandemic, deaths are generally under-counted and revised, like with H1N1.
So actually, Lone Ranger is waaaaay off in his assessment and statement comparing false data selections to Covid 19.
All one had to do was look.
Using a false timeline (13 week) and using the high-end estimate from a general idea, not a specific year, is quite close to misinforming, if not exactly.
I think that was numbers from the WHO and CDC . Pretty much same numbers on each site, BOOOOM!! Sorry Kym. 2017 Flu season put covid world numbers in the same 13 week span in the dirt. Flu killed twice as many.
https://kymkemp.com/2020/08/10/staff-member-at-fortuna-nursing-home-tests-positive-for-covid-19/#comment-1150860
To use your words;
BOOOOM!!
You can deny the truth all day long ,but it is on cdc site and the who site for you to read.It cleary says 2017 flu season and 13 weeks long 690000 deaths, why disagree with the truth or try to hide it? Dramaqueen. And we have never tracked a virus like this thanks to the media, so 2017 numbers were actually considerably higher than 690000 desths, face the facts 2017 was worse but no one gave 2 sheets.
Link to what you are reading please.
CDC and WHO define the flu season as 6 months everywhere.
The estimate you are using also has s low end of 290,000.
It also does not include closed businesses and social distancing.
Link to your source, or be known as a bullshitter.
CDC estimates for 2017 2018 flu deaths for the US = 61,000 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm (and those are estimates not actual counted deaths as in the case of COVID and they may be revised again. Excess deaths this year likely indicate that more people died of COVID than are being counted.)
It looks to me like you took an old estimate, misremembered it slightly and added another zero on the end. Look at the link from the CDC.
If you are talking about flu deaths for the World, CDC doesn’t track those. Maybe you mean the WHO?
Yes, thank you Kym.
Obviously, there is no number and link for Lone Ranger.
The 2027/18 flu season of 6 months was the worst in decades.
But with 61,000 dead in the US in 6 months, that 6 month period is equivalent to April in the US, where nearly 60,000 people died from Covid.
Thank you, Kim. Your response was spot on. Your readers need to read truth backed up by statistics and sources every day.
Readers, do like we do and send Kim $10 or more a month. Keep it possible for her to help put out the truth.
🕯🌳I went and took pictures today of both the middle school and the High school in Fortuna. The sign in front of the middle school go’s along with the Southern Humboldt Board of Trustees ruling of Distancing learning to begin on August 31and to be reevaluated in October. The High School on the other hand seemed to be particularly opened and nobody was talking to me, maybe it was my magnetic personality I don’t know.
Maybe it’s because only weirdos spend their time photographing schools where they have no business.
The High School District is doing in person learning. The other schools in Fortuna aren’t to the best of my recollection.
My uncles wife’s cousin died in a car accident but on the death certificate it stated cause of death covid because he tested positive for it at that same time. if he died from the car accident and not because of complications from covid-19 how is it that they have the death records correct
I don’t doubt there are errors but that is not the policy of the CDC. Here’s a good article on how assigning COVID deaths works. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/continuing-coverage/coronavirus/how-covid-19-deaths-are-reported-and-why-theres-so-much-misinformation-about-the-process
Maybe your just lying?
This does not surprise me. Last month I had to see a medical specialist in Fortuna. NOT one person working in that office was wearing a mask!! In a medical office!!! We went to Ace Hardware and nobody had a mask on. We immediately left. And since the county health Dept doesn’t tell us were exactly the cases of covid are, only we has so many cases today we have no idea how many cases there really are in Fortuna.
Oh my gosh! I saw the same thing, no masks, everywhere I’ve been except Eureka and Arcata so I just stay home now.
In the “old America”, everyone sacrificed & pulled together for the greater good of all. It wld be nice if everyone would get totally on board for 3-4 weeks & see if we can slow this thing way down. It’s not much to ask, wear a mask.
thank you!!!
Really? And we have been sheltering in place since march? Things were pretty dead for a few weeks.. What do you all think ia happening? You think the positive tests are actually testing for a new virus or just any “corona” virus, of which therr are several that inhabit humans…
More misinformation. Science knows the difference.
I see people wearing masks all over Fortuna. I especially have seen the staff of the Fortuna Ace Hardware store wearing masks. I frequent the store often.
Fortuna Ace employees all are masked and the majority of customers are. I have seen on average, one or two individuals, always of the male gender, there without masks.
There’s a typo in the name its psyche Johnson. Peggy is the Social Services lady and Peggy would not have been the one to speak to the press contacting Rockport would be the route to go but good luck with that… since it was a nurse who tested positive ummm ya there was contact with residents hello they give the medication. Sketchy article but it fits for this facility. Not sry to speak the truth here.
They’re going to lie to save their facility. All they care about is money. Not the residents and definitely not the employees. The employee is a Nurse. A Noc charge nurse to be exact! Who gives medication to residents throughout the night. About 30 residents. Higher ups didn’t even tell some of us and now I need to get tested because I possibly was exposed. They didn’t offer though. I have to contact my doctor. The hard Working nurses and CNAs and other staff (house keeping, kitchen) are what hold this place together. We stay for the residents!! We care about them. Management could care less. All they care about is money and who is on Medicare! I would put my notice in but I know my residents will need me more than ever now. Psyche (admin) needs to get her head out of her ass and have compassion for the facility instead of worrying about numbers and spreading lies to the community!
All the higher-ups seem to do is contradict each other and battle it out like they really have something to battle for all they really should be doing is fighting for the fairness of these residents and these workers to get better compensated because we’re so short-staffed and not getting any better with this pandemic.
Fortuna Ace Hardware employees are wearing masks with their noses uncovered. That is the same as no mask. Viral transmission is respiratory most often beginning in the nose. All of them have left their noses uncovered and one had no mask on at all. A young woman cashier with no mask told me they were not going to enforce mask wearing with customers either.
If that is the case at Ace, here in Fortuna, I will NOT be shopping local! Pierson’s in Eureka has FULLY masked employees, requires customer masks, and does social distancing well. I am applying this rule to wherever I shop, and am patronizing those stores who seem to take the health of both their employees, and their customers seriously. The “Good Ole’ Boy” macho attitudes around masks here in Fortuna, are both ignorant and dangerous.
Groups of unmasked kids walking around downtown Fortuna today after school. I also have seen unmasked employees at Ace as well as under the nose mask wearers cashiering at Tractor supply and Hobys market offering feeble excuses. Called management and nothing happens. Calling county next.
You go Karen!
I was just in Fortuna this morning and everywhere I went people were wearing masks