Sixth COVID-Related Death, 26 New Cases Reported Since Friday
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
A sixth Humboldt County resident diagnosed with COVID-19 has died.
This individual, in their 70s, had been hospitalized for COVID-19 symptoms. Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich expressed her sympathies, saying her heart goes out to this person’s loved ones and everyone who is mourning this loss.
Twenty-six new cases of COVID-19 have been reported since Friday, bringing to 473 the total number of county residents who have tested positive for the virus.
“The recent increase in case counts is very concerning,” Dr. Frankovich said. “If we continue at this pace, we are at risk of moving to the ‘Substantial’ or Red Tier in the new state framework. This increase not only has implications for the health of our community, it can also impact our local businesses, many of whom would need to downsize their operations or, in some instances, close operations.”
Dr. Frankovich emphasized the importance of adhering to prevention measures to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. “There are tools available to all of us to limit spread of this virus. Wearing facial coverings, practicing frequent and thorough handwashing and avoiding gatherings with those outside of your household continue to be the best ways to protect yourself and your family,” she said.
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Aug 14 covid
Earlier Test Results: (See also here)
- Three Additional Cases Reported Today, August 27
- 20 New Cases Reported Since Friday
- Five New COVID-19 Cases Reported Today, September 1; Facial Coverings Order Revised to Align with State Order
- Four New COVID Cases Today, September 2
- Six New Cases Reported Today, September 3
- 25 New Cases Reported Since Friday
- Zero New Cases Today, September 9
- Eight Additional Cases Reported Today, September 10
- Fifth COVID-Related Death, Five New Cases Reported Today
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When was the 5th death?
A few days ago. Scroll back in her feed and you’ll see the story.
The links to all September COVID number stories are in the EARLIER CHAPTERS at the bottom. The Fifth COVID Death post is there at the very bottom–last Friday.
Which took place outside of Humboldt but was counted here. Question a journalist should be asking since we know he/she didn’t die here.
How long has it been since #5 was in Humboldt?
The state has to count a death somewhere. In most cases it makes sense to count it where the person’s place of residence was (I agree not in this case) but this is one of those big blanket rules that while slightly impacting us, is not a serious problem in my opinion.
Oh come on ., The way locals believe trump around here, I’m sure they can spread it much more than this ! Covid ? — what covid ?
Another antagonist… Spew your division somewhere else we have much bigger problems to deal with….
Mostly there are people that believe that this disease is dangerous but not so dangerous that the series of continued 5 month plans government orders (look up Soviet government controlling production if you miss the reference) do more damage to the vast majority than the disease and those who do not see the workings of an economy personally and want everyone locked up “for their own good. ” A few are terrified out of their minds and a few dismiss the whole idea.
Those who think that everyone who doesn’t agree with them is stupid do so because stupid is their whole world and that is all they can understand . As Eleanor Roosevelt put it “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Yes and please remember how quickly your Democratic state officials moved to lock everybody down.
And a bunch of people here still dont wear masks and are still having parties and gatherings…theyre gonna get everything shut down again..
It would be nice if wearing masks were the silver bullet – everyone wore them all the time, never met with others and followed each directive to the letter. And if Tinkerbell scattered pixie dust all over so we all could fly. For the first time, i was around someone who didn’t have a mask and kept catching people’s eyes with a smirk on her face. Very irritating for sure.
The reality is that there will always be those who do not follow directions, those whose work does not allow them to comply, those young enough to think themselves invulnerable. All of us will meet up with one of the above sooner or later and become exposed. So blame as you want, all you can do is postpone the inevitable because real is real. You can no more reorder the work for your convenience that you can be showered with pixie dust and fly. I think getting it over with minimal restrictions without trashing the economy gives the best chance.
A shared, conditioned (heat of cooling) indoor air space for more than 10 minutes is the environment in which Covid transmission has been found common. Masks seem to help, as does distance, but not entirely. Shared air, lung to lung transmission of around 1700 or more virus particles. Outdoors the sun and wind and other conditions seem to denature the protective coating of the virus (as with other viruses).
The smirk is infuriating. Anyone I see without a mask in public is often grinning what I imagine to be a “Nana Nana boo boo” attitude.
Yes, “it puts the lotion in basket or it gets the mask”.
Shelter the at risk! NO NOT CONTINUE TO IMPRISON EVERYONE!
Are you really not aware of why that strategy cannot work? Btw the California bruin bear was extirpated from the state by conservative thinking people long ago. Ecology seem to be one of the things conservatives care nothing about conserving.
Liberals don’t seem to notice they are screwing up the environment with mistaken, conflicting but sacrosanct anyway social theories.
Most of the major environmental laws were passed by coalitions that found common ground and worked together. Many of those people were conservative. The advantage of that cooperation was that both the conservative and the liberal sponsors worked very hard to create something that actually worked, instead of something that felt good and pleased the base.
Learn to work together. That requires looking at some of the best perspectives of “the other side.” The Wilderness Act, The Endangered Species Act, The Clean Air Act of 1970, the EPA were all enacted after much work together to create something that would make the world a better place. The 1964 Wilderness Act took more than 5 years to work out the details.
I read a (truly) liberal media article the other day that said that environmental and racial justice issues would “never” win in Iowa. If you never listen to the racial justice or environmental motivations and ideas of people from Iowa, you can be guaranteed they won’t ever vote for your ideas. If you think you have only closed your mind because the other guy is close minded you are deluding and defeating yourself.
Those things havent worked at all. In many cases they have worsened the situation. A good example is the forest preserves created that now are overgrown with brush and small trees because of excessive protection and now are burning. The real problem is too many people. Then they eat things like bats and anteaters and the viruses in those animals mutate into strains that feed on humans.
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thanks.
🕯🌳Holy shit!!!☄☄
I think I need to have my eyes checked because I see “3” on one dashboard, but only “2” on the other one.
Been mentioned several times. Ignore the banner and read the press release.
UGh, I’m just so tired. Sorry. Fixed now.
Hang in there Kym! You’re doing an incredible job. How many of you are there anyway?
Comes down to the old adage, “no applause, just throw money”.
Will do, God willing and the creek don’t rise.
Six people have died since February, shut er down, shut this place down! FUHS on week six ,no cases, whats up with that? Covid was here in Nov of 19.
Condolences to the loved ones of the deceased. RIP.
Best wishes to all who are sick or otherwise suffering.
Over the weekend, 28 moved to recovered status vs 26 new cases. Zero new hospitalizations.
Stars,
thanks.
But the 5th death didn’t even live here
Covid related? Sonthey died and also had covid in their system? The wording is so manipulative
We’ll need 6,000 deaths in Humboldt to rival the lethality of the Spanish Flu. This isn’t living up to the “once in a hundred years pandemic” moniker.
🕯🌳So your saying you’d be more comfortable if there were more deaths? That’s is why you keep on comparing it to that flu right?
Maybe just more comfortable with hearing from the shut-everything-down-we’re-all-going-to-die believers whose fear is more contagious than the disease.
Mid,
But it is living up to the “don’t let a crisis go to waste” playbook power grab doctrine.
[…] Redheaded Blackbelt has the story. […]
What concerns me is the lack of solid guidance from the ‘Covid information line’ and local pediatricians. I was told to send my kids to school if they had no symptoms despite any exposure risk by Redwood Pediatrics. The JIC told me to lie to the schools if I decided to keep them home to self quarantine. Professionals should be advocating personal responsibility, not a ‘do whatever you want’ attitude.
No new……….
What is WuHu flu (chinese) related death??? Asymptomatic, and died of other causes!!! False positive? Such bullshit.
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1305685128094588929?s=20
🕯🌳Well it seems that the County does that fine all by it self. Last month it was Chase bank in Eureka and Ace Hardware in Fortuna and this month its starting to look like L’s kitchen in Fortuna and the fake gym attached to the Playroom. All this is done for contact tracing, when there done they open back up.
the new framework is very descrimitory toward rural areas.