Eight New Cases Reported Today, October 14
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
A total of 542 Humboldt County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, after eight new cases were reported today.
While today’s eight reported cases mark the largest single-day increase in a month, Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich said recent case counts have been relatively low compared to many parts of California. She pointed out that this is partly a result of the community’s adoption of COVID-19 safety measures.
“This commitment to each other’s health and well-being is a testament to the character of our community,” Dr. Frankovich said. “As the state just released guidance for limited gatherings of up to three households and with the holidays right around the corner, now is the time to continue our focus on prevention measures. It’s vital to our success going forward.”
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I wish they would comment on whether these are related cases or just random cases. I suspect they were mostly related in some way.
Covid case report got posted fast today.
Gotta feed the panic!!!
🕯🌳I’m surprised you people aren’t jumping in her case for reporting it,here in the past month you people have been jumping her for posting on it.
You people? Some people Willie, not I. We all look alike to your ilk though don’t we?
I haven’t been staying on top of the news but I thought she quit?
She has other priorities and admits that she is not the best person for the job, but she is still working until a replacement can be found, IIRC.
She sounds very stressed out. I don’t know her, but I would be worried about her if she were my friend or sister.
🕯🌳And what’s my ilk?
Whether it’s reporting no case or eight in a single day, it is more likely to be a function of a bureaucratic reporting hold up rather than of the accurate count of cases at the moment. The disease will grind on until there are no people who can get infected. It does not take the weekend off or cease existence if a plane is fogged delayed but the counting does .
Coronavirus Tracker
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/country/united-states/
Oh, so now RealClearPolitics is comfortable with publishing the ~200,000 death toll, now that we know its much worse.
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/analysis-finds-true-pandemic-death-toll-is-much-higher-than-200000-in-us/
Those clowns were calling it a total hoax back in February. Why are you still using that rag as a citation?
All roads lead to Rome.
The problem with your linked article is that it assumes that any “excess” deaths are caused by the novel corona virus even though it acknowledges that they were more likely caused by our chosen response to the virus. Combined with the likely over reporting of covid on death certificates (because the feds pay for “covid” care and CDC said to report covid as long as it is “suspected”) it starts to look like our response was pretty deadly
Europe, a continent that takes foreign travel extremely serious, is in dire straits. Travel from there may need to be restricted as they are not just facing a resurgence as the article below says. It did that a couple of weeks ago. Numerous countries are experiencing far worse conditions now than they did for the first wave, and Europe was devasted in the first wave. UK’s second wave has shot up like a rocket from a high of 5k during their first wave to 16k now and still going up. Spain is going through a second wave that has lasted twice as long as the first wave, and has seen daily cases rise from 8K to 15K. Much worse off, France’s second wave has turned into a monster. Where the first wave peaked in the 5K for new cases, they are now in the 20K range, 4 times higher and going up fast and their second wave started 2 and a half months ago while the first only lasted a month. Italy just posted a record high for new infections since the pandemic began and Italy was hit the hardest in the first wave. Germany’s second is as bad as the first and growing rapidly. Belgium has gone from 1.5K first wave to 6K now but by far the worst hit for new cases is Poland, where the first wave was 500 a day and now sits at 5K, ten times higher and still going up fast. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
The good news is that the death rate, though slightly rising, is still very low. Below is from this article
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/coronavirus-daily-news-updates-october-14-what-to-know-today-about-covid-19-in-the-seattle-area-washington-state-and-the-world/
“Europe, Which Thought It Had Tamed The Coronavirus, Faces A Resurgence
LONDON — From France to Russia, from Britain to the Czech Republic, European leaders are confronting a surge in coronavirus cases that is rapidly filling hospital beds, driving up death tolls and raising the grim prospect of further lockdowns in countries already traumatized by the pandemic. The continent, which once compared favorably to the United States in its handling of the pandemic, is being engulfed by a second wave of infection. With an average of more than 100,000 new infections per day over the past week, Europe now accounts for about one-third of new cases reported worldwide.”
We don’t care about cases. What is the fatality rate? Apparently FUHS already had it last fall , 3 months no cases , cause like Willie pointed out, those knuckledraggers can’t go to school safely. I guess he owes everyone of those kids an apology and the administration.
LR, there many reasons to track the growth and spread of a novel virus. The CFR is just one thing that needs to be considered.
But concerning the CFR it’s way down from the April killing fields. Part due to more testing being done and part because the virus further mutated to a less virulent form. Nobody knows however what comes next and that’s why one stays vigilant. The issue with brain and nervous system damage has yet to be played out as well.
Tracking the numbers of daily cases is equally important as it tells us that worldwide we are still on our first wave, having never hit a peak. That is in and of itself a statistical message that we are still only in the beginning of this thing, and thats not good.
Personally I want to see an end of lockdowns as I’m sure we all do. That right now is all that is important and the rules set down to achieve that are somewhat questionable. But they include all of the data, especially daily cases.
Plus I get bored real easy these days and statistics are fun to play with. ;>)
It was never “a killing field.” News headlines that give accurate information do not gain attention nor stir action which seem to be the motivation for many news reporters. So unbalanced news headlines are repeated constantly. Stats are misused political tools and other issues cease to exist. Blame is apportioned as if somehow right political thought would make it disappear. This is simply a serious infectious disease that needs attention but not hysteria. It is not the worse pandemic in the last 100 years.
What it true is that the US had become used to an ever dropping death rate out of sheer good fortune that there have been no medical surprises since mid 1970s, which allowed science to improve on death rates from the old nemesis of heart failure and cancer. What is really is awful is the amount of unnecessary stress and disease created whole cloth by the press, politicians and panicked behavior in addition to the additional issues directly caused by the disease itself. And apparently still is going on without having learned a damn thing.
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/money/2020/06/11/how-many-people-died-the-year-you-were-born/111930470/
The death from COVID-19 in Humboldt is horrendous , oh the killing fields , 6 local ,as in living in Humboldt have perished from COVID-19 in a year, how can we sustain such a pandemic any longer is beyond me. Hospitals are averaging 1 COVID-19 patient a week, they are flooded, between the hospitals in the county, thats one patient per month. How can we keep up with those numbers.
Researcher- Thank you. I sure wish there was a reliably truthful and accurate source to go to for statistics. But this has become horribly politicized so we are not allowed a non-biased source. And yes I mean both sides. The official pushing of fear has been justified as a way to safely manage the public (Reference- “You don’t need to wear masks” then became “You always needed masks. We just lied to you back there because the front-line workers needed them more than you.”)…The second wave that is now beginning in Europe was always predicted to arrive. And it was always predicted to come around during regular flu season. Well, we are almost there. We do not know how extreme it will be. Be safe everybody! Take care of each other by respecting space and wearing masks in public places. People have every reason and are smart to be concerned so please don’t be a jerk. We can hold different theories and yet respect each other. Older folks are worried so please understand they have valid concerns…I am personally disgusted by the media disinformation and government misinformation and even the local health department’s refusal to release info on cases. If it’s such a public health danger then why aren’t we allowed basic info? No- we are not researching and tracking down victims and burning down their houses that is a bullshit excuse. We would like to know where the clusters are and why- Is it a trim crew? Is it a grocery store? Is it a stupid party? How is it actually spreading here in Humboldt?
Please don’t copy and paste lengthy news articles. That’s a lame tactic of many a blathering idiot over at locos.
How many are in the hospital at the moment is all we need to know! Zero I imagine! Are they going to inform us how many flu cases a day are reported I doubt it! Notice nationally they aren’t even mentioning deaths anymore just cases! Chicken little news!
Pharm, it’s an important indicator but why do you think its the only one with relevance. And if it is, then why would you limit it to just local hospitalization. This thing is global and right now the hospitalization rate is going up in leaps and bounds in much of Europe and South America. A virus doesn’t choose who or what it will attack.
And if hospitalizations shot up in our area, would that make you think that covid deserves your attention.
All I know is that we have an alien invader on our planet and we don’t have a clue what comes next.
We aren’t Europe or south America, those are totally different cultures . Doesn’t really apply to us, COVID-19 in Humboldt is pretty weak for some reason, could it have been here in November?
The numbers in Humboldt are so low because our county has followed cdc guidelines.
It’s no coincidence that Shasta county, which is full of Trump [edit] is now having to shut down businesses again, while Humboldt is opening up. One month ago both counties had the same number of daily cases.
The only problem with masks and social distancing is that they are effective, causing those that struggle with basic science to incorrectly think they aren’t necessary.
The high number of cases and the low number of fatalities rule out this being a pandemic .
You clearly don’t understand what the word pandemic means. Here’s some help:
pan·dem·ic
(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
Per capita we have double the deaths as Canada.
The US makes up 4% of the worlds population, and we have 20% of the deaths.
Apparently we have awesome health care here . Half of all deaths are over 80 ,so apparently due to the baby boomer era ,the US houses more elderly than other countries, pretty simple.
Damn, I did it again. That should say researcher not r
LR, I think you’re missing the point. (Maybe me too. I been on dexamethasone for a month and it definitely messes with the brainworks) When you have a global pandemic for a highly contagious novel virus, you know it could show up anywhere at anytime in this day of mass travel. So you stay aware of it’s progress. Its that old global community thing.
When D614G the nasty strain from the spring first popped up in Italy it was killing at a pace close to 15% death rate. Now only a couple of countries worldwide are above 10% with most much lower between .5% and 2.5%. Do we know there isn’t going to be another deadly mutation occurring. Nope. Should we be prepared in case it does. Yep. And that’s where we stand now. And for countries with major ties and travel to the US (ie Europe Mexico etc) it is very important to know what is happening there because it relates to here. Maybe not Humboldt, but thats yet to be decided.
Getting rid of lockdowns asap is really the only thing that really matters and that will also take continued vigilance
“now that we know its much worse.”
Uhhh, we don’t know that it is much worse. There are just as many articles, probably more, stating that the deaths from Chinese virus is over reported. There are thousands of examples of people who died from something else that happened to have China virus that were reported as dying from China virus. The information is out there if you care to look. You don’t care to look. You are a liberal aren’t you?
Here are the sources from “that rag”. Are you triggered now? Those sources are right there to see if you look. You didn’t bother to look. You’re a liberal huh?
Data Sources: WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC, DXY, JHU, RCP | Population: U.S. Census | Seasonal Flu 1: CDC 2008–2018 10-Year Avg
Why would the liberals let statistics and facts, mess up a perfectly good argument?
Just because you don’t understand the science behind assigning the cause of death doesn’t make it inaccurate.
If you’re aware of “thousands of cases” of doctors committing healthcare fraud, which is what you’re alleging, why don’t you turn them in? If there is so much evidence of doctors committing fraud, why is nobody being charged? I’m pretty sure you got that information from YouTube videos
I’m willing to bet you’ve never taken one class on infectious disease or epidemiology, yet you claim to have a better understanding of covid than the actual experts at the cdc.
Its pretty easy to see actually. Look at the average number of deaths of every illness reported annually in the United States for the last ten years up to 2018. Then look at the covid-19 deaths that are being reported for 2020. Then look at the average number of deaths from all those other illnesses in 2020. What you will see is a “pull-forward” effect where the average number of deaths from other illnesses in 2020 decrease significantly and in some cases, disappear completely, because they are being reported as covid-19. I won’t do your homework for you, but I will give you the link that has all that information and allowed me to come to my own conclusions.
https://www.cdc.gov/
Read, investigate, come to your own conclusions, and let your eyes be opened!
How do you explain excess deaths then?
Umm because there is another disease and people are dying from it? Look at the graph, I didn’t say covid doesn’t exist, I said that it has been bolstered by other deaths being misappropriated to it. Look at how flu deaths all but disappeared when covid came around. Its pretty obvious if you look at the graphs that the CDC themselves provide. Every other cause of death significantly plummeted when covid came around. Its all there, look for yourself.
Another cause of excess deaths is that the hospitals all but didn’t accept people for months because of the fear of covid, so a bunch of people passed away from diseases like heart disease and cancer who weren’t able to get the treatments that they needed. When you remove the standard treatments we have been using to treat “standard” diseases for the last 30 years then people are going to die and there are obviously going to be excess deaths; from the combination of covid and the lack of treatment for all the other diseases out there.
When you neglect treating people for heart disease and cancer as well as the slew of other diseases that elderly have, we are going to have excess deaths. Unnecessary excess deaths at that. And those all got attributed to covid. That’s a pretty damn solid explanation isn’t it, Kym? But you just wanted me to spell it out for you because you could’ve easily come to those same conclusions yourself if you weren’t blinded by your own agency and just looked at the graphs that the CDC provides.
No, they’re not going to report flu cases because the flu only kills 30k-40k in 12 months as compared to covid, which killed 200,000 in 7 months.
No, I don’t want to hear your silly conspiracy theories about how the cdc and John’s Hopkins university can’t be trusted lol.
Flu season is 4 months, highest record season 76000, COVID-19 10 months 220000 . Not much difference, especially if flu cases are mistaken for COVID-19, what happened to that trinity county cluster? That was just a fluke.
No, flu season is actually 8 months, but they count deaths for the entire year, so The number of deaths listed on the CDC website represent 12 months.
There’s also no lockdowns, no face masks, no social distancing during a typical flu year.
And, the average flu deaths is 30-40k, with some years as low as 15,000.
There is no comparison, you can keep calling it a hoax all you want, science doesn’t care.
Why do you think the flu season is 4 months? Did you see that on a Q anon YouTube video?
Never said it was a hoax ,bud. But your science is now saying that sheltering in place after an outbreak is worse than not sheltering. It took long enough for science to figure that one out. Here is a quick science lesson, science takes data to form a theory, no data on covid, so really no foresight from science. Peace out bud, chillin like a villain, look at the bright side Maui opened up today! Ruth chris here I come.