One New Case Reported Today, October 27
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
Humboldt County’s confirmed COVID-19 case count now stands at 568, after one new case was reported today. Humboldt County officially remains in the yellow (Minimal) tier this week, although local data for the week ending Oct. 17 meets the metrics for the orange (Moderate) tier with a case rate of 2.8. Two consecutive weeks of a case rate greater than 2.0 would move the county fully into the orange tier.
“Fortunately, our internal data review for the past week looks favorable for remaining in yellow when the next state assessment is released on Nov. 3,” said Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich. “It is critically important to the entire community that we adhere to safety measures and keep our case rates low going forward.”
Additionally, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released partial guidance for live artistic, theatrical and musical performances, which will be permitted outdoors and only in counties in the orange (Moderate) and yellow (Minimal) risk levels of the “Blueprint for a Safer Economy.”
Dr. Frankovich said she was looking forward to seeing the full guidance from the state. “In the meantime,” she said, “we are happy to have the ability to review and approve plans for small, structured events outdoors that incorporate all of the prevention measures we have used to get us into the yellow tier.”
Plans for such events can be submitted to the county as Spectator-Free events () and will be routed to the Health Officer for approval as required by the state. For more information on the partial guidance, visit the state Q&A page at
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Humboldt County’s confirmed COVID-19 case count now stands at 568, after one new case was reported today. Humboldt County officially remains in the yellow (Minimal) tier this week, although local data for the week ending Oct. 17 meets the metrics for the orange (Moderate) tier with a case rate of 2.8. Two consecutive weeks of a case rate greater than 2.0 would move the county fully into the orange tier.
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Yellow ,orange, red who cares, we’re done shutting small local biz down . Covid is the new aids , part of life , mask and move on.
Wonder when Gov Newsom will rescind his shelter-in-place order of March 19th whereby people could only leave their home for essential needs such as food and medicine.
Oooohhhh!!!
Will we even do the COVID tracking after next Tuesday?
After you take a few days for a good cry at the election results, you will find that the news will still be talking about the criminally mishandled pandemic that has taken over 226,000 American lives.
I hope that’s all it would take is a good cry. Why does all the blame go to the federal government for COVID anyway? Do you not understand how government works? President Trump made it very clear early on that he would leave it up to individual states to enact stricter measures if they desired. Governors like Newsome and Whitmer tried to lock people down, but they gave in and gave up. Blame them just as much! State COVID guidelines just can not be less strict than federal guidelines. Every state governor could have done more instead of pass blame on the federal government. BTW did Ilhan Omar really marry her brother?
Most of the blame for the federal government falls squarely on the person failing to properly lead the federal government. The purpose of having a federal government is to do things that are bigger than states can accomplish, like nationwide infrastructure, space exploration, defending the country and waging wars… including those against pandemics.
Do people really need government guidance and would they even follow Donald’s guidelines if he had any? I find the whole thing hilarious, people get so bent over not wearing a mask , seen a guy get in his car alone after coming out of safeway and he ate his mask, people came unglued. Boy did they freak out, i almost sucked my mask down my throat from laughing so hard.
The mask down your throat is exactly where it will end up.
First the mask, then you will accept the vaccine as the next logical progression towards being safe.
Interesting report. This is another way that a coronavirus is not like the flu. Like the common cold there maybe no long lasting immunity from covid, which means herd immunity could never be reached. But thats not a given as the report stresses that no one knows what role antibodies play in regards to being re-infected.
The first url is an article about it and the second the report.
From the article
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/207333/coronavirus-antibody-prevalence-falling-england-react/
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/institute-of-global-health-innovation/MEDRXIV-2020-219725v1-Elliott.pdf
Tests on more than 365,000 people in England have shown that the antibody response to the virus that causes COVID-19 wanes over time.
Led by Imperial College London, analysis of finger-prick tests carried out at home between 20 June and 28 September found that the number of people testing positive dropped by 26.5% across the study period
The downward trend was observed in all areas of the country and age groups These findings suggest that there may be a decline in the level of immunity in the population in the months following the first wave of the epidemic.
Professor Helen Ward, one of the lead authors of the report said: “This very large study has shown that the proportion of people with detectable antibodies is falling over time. We don’t yet know whether this will leave these people at risk of reinfection with the virus that causes COVID-19, but it is essential that everyone continues to follow guidance to reduce the risk to themselves and others.”
I think marijuana is the answer, all that floramite and other covid killing chemicals sprayed on that organic flower may have some positives, puff on , the lasting effects are evident, no need for a study . Look at all the zombies that took in all these chemicals unknowingly. The peace,love era has lost their minds. But hey, the 90s indoor ops were crushin it at 5000.00 a pound, what did you expect them to kill them bugs in the last two weeks with.
Marijuana, marijuana, be my heroin.
Too bad you can’t smoke yourself to death. I’d have done so years ago if I could, but these six newly legal ladies of mine need me to take care of them so they can take care of me.
Maybe the “old people in the hills” do too if the millenials aren’t treating them right. Bodies wear out before minds, hearts, and souls do and mine is still young enough to be of use to an octogenarian and their own six legal ladies.
So researcher, I assume you believe in a vaccine right? A vaccine would be amazing. We could go back to normal! You know that thing when they dilute a specific disease or virus to help you build antibodies to protect you from infection or serious symptoms as much as possible. So if you believe that a vaccine will work but people are at greater risk of reinfection after having covid, I don’t know what to say other than your opinion is completely irrelevant. You’re cherry picking points that defy common sense and are at best suited for an election year. You should change your name to some thing less misleading
I agree Mike . some of these folks need to get over it and find something else to perseverate on. If you haven’t managed your health properly for many years, you may be better off hiding out while the rest of us carry on with living and watching Darwin’s theory play out. Use the time wisely to affect one or more of your comorbidity issues so you don’t have to be as afraid of getting the flu.
Mike I really have no idea what you’re talking about. If they come up with a vaccine that works yeah I’m all for it. Aren’t you? The problem is the fact that a coronavirus is not influenza. They don’t have a vaccine for the common cold, nor other coronaviruses. However, if they can come with one even if the immunity only lasts for 6 months it would slow down spread and be a good thing. That’s what the report I posted has to do with, whether or not immunity of any kind let alone herd immunity is possible. They still don’t know what connection anti-bodies have to immunity and they may play no part at all, though that’s unlikely, so it’s science in progress.
As to your bizarre generalizations and ugly attitude that has nothing to do with what I posted all I can say is this baby is real and pretending it’s not is for schoolchildren to do.
So to cut through the fat of the matter, if antibodies wane over time and “they” are unable to produce a vaccine for a common coronavirus and if you truly believe that if they come up with one where the immunity lasts 6 months and it could slow the spread, yet herd immunity is not possible because immune response wanes, then what is the solution? Treat each other like pariahs till the end of time? Destroy our livelihoods for something that there is no solution to? Maybe you should look into an actual solution instead of just maintaining the status quo, because the status quo clearly is not working.
If they don’t have a vaccine for the common cold or other coronaviruses, why would you think they can develop one for this particular coronavirus? Not trying to troll. Genuinely interested.
Well, for one, I think they can because they think they can, and I think they know a lot more than I do.
I trust Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson&Johnson, Astra-Zeneca, etc to use science to produce a vaccine, after the cat is out of the bag. Who I do not trust is CDC, WHO, dr. Fauci, etc. All of these are overrated and/or special interest groups who have proven ineffective, given the advances of 21st century medicine, at protecting people.
It’s always safe to put your trust in giant corporations, especially pharmaceutical companies.
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Liability protection.
It’s so funny. You got these people who refuse to learn, refuse to grow, refuse to try and understand, yet they are always the loudest voice with their ego inflated superiority telling others to shut up by way of constant insults. You guys gotta grow the fuck up. Get out of your encapsulated reality and check out what life’s really about. Do you a world of good.
Just to give people an idea of how fast this third wave is exploding across the US, and yes I know it hasn’t hit here hard, the following are the 7 day averages for daily new cases.
On Oct 7 the US was experiencing 44,000 new cases each day. On Oct 20 it was 58,000 a day. Today it is 72,000 a day, and showing no signs of slowing down. And much of the US hasn’t started flu season, the rest at just the beginning. This is a pivotal moment in the fight to slow down the spread.
But there’s a bigger picture happening. What is happening right now is a very important time in the evolution of the human race and is an important subject for people to discuss and understand. Yet there are elements of society that don’t want evolution to happen. Instead of walking the path that leads to a higher and better way of living they will do anything to slow others down. I’ve seen it all my life but never as bad as it is now. We live in a time when the very essence of existence hangs in the balance, be it covid, climate change, the rise of fascism, the damage Trump has already done to the environment, to the poor, to workers, to common decency, there has never been a more important time to communicate, to educate, to understand.
But I am old, and tire of the juvenile games immature men play. For awhile I’ll just be posting data but not reading the forums. Too much crap to wade through. But the data is important. Don’t let ignorant fools try and tell you otherwise. Keep learning. Keep trying to understand.
Peace out
The younger crowd doesn’t care about COVID-19 researcher, try and understand, their chances of dying from COVID-19 are close to zero. They have figured out the bs, 90 percent of all fatalities are over 70 . Hope this clears up any questions you have about case spikes, its pretty simple.
And, clearly, the lives of your elders are bullshit to you.
Assume much? “Your elders” I am the elder. I’m just pointing out views and actions of the younger generation, it’s a free world homes, they can do as they wish, just won’t catch me around them, simple concept.
Whoa. Hold up. Advocating for personal responsibility? You might want to keep that to yourself around these parts…
Yeah that is truly dangerous. We must talk about “safety” not personal responsibility, how dare you advocate for anything personal in this age where we are supposed to care so much about each other.
Just setting this here. An offering on another perspective. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-23/west-african-village-survived-ebola-what-it-can-teach-us-about-covid-19
Useful take aways from that article : ““West Africa taught us that scientific prowess alone doesn’t work.””, “Many of their techniques came from training led by the CDC, which, on home soil, has proved strikingly ineffectual” and “And yet, in the United States, hubris, skepticism and neglect have left more than 8.3 million Americans infected and more than 222,000 dead.” But the hubris aforementioned also belongs to the author, who lives in a country that is not New Zealand or Taiwan, who apparently believes that the CDC was not in any way responsible for the US not having an early test, that politics long in place were not worth mentioning and that journalists, trained in public health or not, have not greatly contributed to the skepticism with their dire headlines that simply were inaccurate. And apparently think it’s important to keep at it now. Ebola is not Covid-19. Ebola had a 50 to 90 percent death rate. The CDC puts “The range of estimates put the fatality rate for those showing symptoms between 0.2%-1%, with a “best estimate” of 0.4%.”
The US citizens are still spewing on each other as to whether immigration can be regulated, global warming is the cause of forest fires, causes of racism and whether Trump is to blame for everything. Journalists and politicians starting with Clinton’s Presidency have spent a lot of time in fostering disunity. We could be doing better as a country but still prefer not to.
As I said, Covid-19 is not Ebola. But a little imagination could envision another disease evolving into a much more deadly pandemic . Maybe then what’s left of the population will find a bit more tolerance for others and a little less certainty. Why even journalist might be willing to be a little less certain what is important.
The masks and the gloves come off the morning of the 4th. Our turn!
My mask isn’t coming off. Ever.
It isn’t a muzzle, a symbol, or a political statement: it’s a piece of fabric. The choice of style, patterns of fabric, and materials used to embellish the fashion accessory can be used to express my personality, personal aesthetic and artistic preferences, and mood of the day. It can be as inexpensive or as fancy as I want. It doesn’t take a lot of talent or time or money to make a new facial covering.
There just isn’t anything about masks to hate, unlike high heels, short skirts, revealing bathing suits that can cause Janet Jackson style “clothing malfunctions”, and all the classism and misogyny that was involved in trying to conform to the whims of fashionable clothing styles for the past half-century plus of this thing called “life”.
When society stops ridiculing low income older women’s faces, I might take it off again among friends, but until then I see no point.
I haven’t had a single respiratory infection and only one “stomach bug” since March 13. That was most likely food poisoning. I have no idea how many elderly and immune compromised people I have killed or severely inconvenienced with my cold and flu germs before masking in public became common in Humboldt.
I look forward to the day when facial coverings are depoliticized.
I’ve always worn a mask, glad to see others finally getting up to speed. I know when one has a warrant on them the mask comes in handy.
We know Kemosabe, you have always worn a mask!
The middle east sounds like a wonderful place for you. Covering people up has been used as a dehumanizing tactic by totalitarian and dictatorial governments for millennia. Way to turn the clock back a few hundred years.
“There just isn’t anything about masks to hate,” is what I thought too. Easy enough to do… Until I had to do more than amble around a store or sit at a desk. I don’t know how people whose work requires physical strain or long hours do it. I thought I was going to have a heart attack just carrying a heavy box in warm weather 60 feet.
To the people who keep on the move in their jobs while wearing a mask: Thank you. You have my respect and sympathy.
Your turn to do what? Join ant tifa? Raise taxes? Turn US into china?
Old uncle joe promises jobs, he just doesn’t tell you those jobs will be in other countries.
Has he decided what he’s running for? Congress, kam’s vp, dog catcher or biden mafia kingpin?
Los Vegas odds: hunter will be ambassador of; china -100, Ukraine -400, cuba -5 , Wakanda +250 or most likely Pelican Bay State Prison
Kym, what did I miss? I thought Dr. Frankovich resigned her post?
She did. But she’s continuing until a replacement can be found. Understandably, Public Health Officers are in high demand right now.
Some more about a viable vaccine. This has always been the major concern about vaccines, not when they will finally make one, but if one can be made.
From https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/coronavirus-daily-news-updates-october-28-what-to-know-today-about-covid-19-in-the-seattle-area-washington-state-and-the-world/
“U.K. Vaccine Taskforce chair Kate Bingham also warned against over-optimism, saying there is no guarantee a successful vaccine against the novel coronavirus will ever be developed. No successful vaccine has ever been developed against any coronavirus.
Numerous attempts to design vaccines against SARS and MERS, two which are related to the virus that causes COVID-19, have failed. Scientists also warn that immunity against coronaviruses appears to fade over time and that achieving any vaccine-induced immunity to protect against infection or severe disease could be challenging.